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Mon 2003-05-12 21:26
Coolness of the day
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[personal profile] simontTue 2003-05-13 01:08
If you're going to be like that, you might as well say English doesn't even have the passive voice! But clearly it does; the verb "to be" is used as an auxiliary when constructing it, but the passive voice certainly exists.

And "be bothered" is clearly passive in construction, but its meaning is closer to "bother" than literally "be bothered [by someone else]". I think it qualifies pretty well as a deponent verb, therefore.
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[identity profile] antinomy.livejournal.comTue 2003-05-13 01:22
Don't mind me, I don't do English grammar :)

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