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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 2:39 pm
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Madam Pince held the note up to the light, as though determined to
detect a forgery, but it passed the test. This sentence is from Harry
Potter. And I don't know what is a subject of 'determined'.
At first I thought 'determined' as a verb and the subject is Pince.
But I also thought 'determined' as a pp and the subject is It. What is
a real subject??
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Nate Branscom
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 2:56 pm
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bychancestone@gmail.com wrote:
| Quote: | Madam Pince held the note up to the light, as though determined to
detect a forgery, but it passed the test. This sentence is from Harry
Potter. And I don't know what is a subject of 'determined'.
At first I thought 'determined' as a verb and the subject is Pince.
But I also thought 'determined' as a pp and the subject is It. What is
a real subject??
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"Pince" is the subject. Read it like this:
Madam Pince held the note up to the light, as though [she was]
determined to detect a forgery, but it passed the test. |
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Martin Ambuhl
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 3:11 pm
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bychancestone@gmail.com wrote:
| Quote: | Madam Pince held the note up to the light, as though determined to
detect a forgery, but it passed the test. This sentence is from Harry
Potter. And I don't know what is a subject of 'determined'.
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'determined' is not a verb needing a subject, but an adjective.
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jerry_friedman@yahoo.com
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| Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 11:37 pm
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Martin Ambuhl wrote:
| Quote: | bychancestone@gmail.com wrote:
Madam Pince held the note up to the light, as though determined to
detect a forgery, but it passed the test. This sentence is from Harry
Potter. And I don't know what is a subject of 'determined'.
'determined' is not a verb needing a subject, but an adjective.
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Not only that, but it needs something to modify. If we pretend we
can't understand English, the modified noun could be "Madam Pince",
"note", or "light", but obviously it's "Madam Pince".
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