Jigneshbharati Posted 5 years ago
Grammar
Prepared
There was no news and we were prepared for the worst. I saw this sentence in Longman dictionary. How do we confirm whether "prepared" is an adjective or passive? Is there a trick to decide whether the past participle is adjective or passive?
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Jigneshbharati How do we confirm whether "prepared" is an adjective or passive? By the sense of it. A passive construction requires an agent, and no one prepared them for anything.
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JigneshbharatiHow do we confirm whether "prepared" is an adjective or passive?
By the sense of it. A passive construction requires an agent, and no one prepared them for anything. They were in a state of preparedness.
JigneshbharatiIs there a trick to decide whether the past participle is adjective or passive?
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JigneshbharatiIs there a trick to decide whether the past participle is adjective or passive?
No, there is no trick, but there are a few basic principles that you can follow to guide you in the right direction.
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Jigneshbharatiwe were prepared for the worst
Did someone prepare us? Probably not. So probab
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