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Re: action verbs vs. qualities

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: action verbs vs. qualities
• Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 08:14:49 EDT

In a message dated 2004-05-26 8:45:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> With verbs of quality, the subject may or may not be the agent; the fact may
> be unstated.  

The subject of a verb of quality is a patient, the one experiencing the 
quality.  An agent may have caused the patient to have that quality, but the verb 
describing that will not be a verb of quality (or state).
lay'tel SIvten

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