Sunday, November 30, 2008

An odd passive

Professor Richard Brettel, talking about Delacroix's Abduction of Rebecca (Museum Masterpieces lecture series, 19th century European Art):

"Somebody's way is going to be had with her later."

This sentence is perfectly grammatical (as far as I can tell, anyhow), but it's also very weird. I think it's because of the possessive. There's a sense of the actor in the subject of this passive.

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At 11:00 PM, November 30, 2008 Anonymous Anonymous had this to say...

That is odd; I think it would make my spell and grammar check start to smoke!

 

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