Timeline for What is the difference in the meaning of these sentences?
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| May 25, 2017 at 11:12 | history | edited | Davo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 24, 2017 at 17:35 | comment | added | Jay | "Confused" can certainly be used an adjective. "Bob is a very confused person." "Confused" can be used as a verb. "Bob confused me when he talked about parts of speech." The question is which it is being used as here. | |
| May 24, 2017 at 17:30 | history | edited | Davo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 24, 2017 at 17:01 | comment | added | Davo | Let us continue this discussion in chat. | |
| May 24, 2017 at 16:45 | comment | added | Mohd Zulkanien Sarbini | @Davo According to OLD, confuse is a verb, but confused is an adjective. You might also enjoy reading this. | |
| May 24, 2017 at 16:26 | comment | added | Davo | Confused as a verb: OLD, MacMillan, Dictionary.com, Verbix.com, Reverso.net... | |
| May 24, 2017 at 16:22 | comment | added | Davo | Part of speech is really defined by how the word is used. I heated the water. The conversation became very heated. | |
| May 24, 2017 at 16:17 | comment | added | Mohd Zulkanien Sarbini | @Davo But this time, I trust my dictionary. "confused" is clearly an adjective because it's gradable and can be modified by very | |
| May 24, 2017 at 11:05 | comment | added | Davo | 1. Dictionaries are bad sources for determining words' parts of speech; and 2. Provided "Joe confused Mary" is a sentence, either Joe, or Mary, or confused is performing the function of a verb. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 22:09 | comment | added | Mohd Zulkanien Sarbini | I don't claim to be an expert, but consfused looks like an adjective to me. So the it's in the active voice. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 20:33 | history | edited | Davo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 23, 2017 at 20:32 | comment | added | Davo | Agreed, it is not idiomatic; but it is grammatically correct, and might be said by a prankster, along the lines of I kid sometimes. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 20:03 | comment | added | Catija | Except I don't know that anyone would actually say simply "I confuse sometimes"... they'd add an object... "I confuse people sometimes". | |
| May 23, 2017 at 19:35 | history | answered | Davo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |