From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 10 2001 - 06:39:35 EST
At 1:53 AM +0000 1/10/01, Mark Wilson wrote:
>>At 5:02 PM +0200 1/9/01, Kimmo Huovila wrote:
>----
>>The passive voice does not say whether the subject is passive or not. It
>>only describes what happens to the subject, whether from his own
>>initiative or someone else's. Or am I just missing the obvious here?
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>
>Kimmo:
>
>With your above statement in mind, how do you define
>the difference between a Middle and Passive voice.
>
>Your definition above for a Passive is how I understand a Middle.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Mark Wilson
>
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