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Confirming what you have seen so far, the passive is used in the last clause because the subject of this passive clause is nonagentive and thematic both in terms of the whole event... and in terms of Polonich's being a participant in the previous clause.
— Jul 24, 2012 03:31PM
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According to this rule, the auxiliary of a non-imperative English sentence must have either a modal or a tense marker (which a later rule specifies as either past or present), and it may have several optional components: phrasal modals, perfect aspect, and progressive aspect.
— Jun 03, 2012 04:05PM
