Timeline for Stripped off half its gear/stripped half of its gear
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| Jan 5, 2019 at 23:48 | comment | added | Canadian Yankee | My last example was in the passive voice, which might have been a bit confusing. In the active voice, the same idea would be "The police stripped the suspect of all weapons and contraband upon arrest." When you go to the passive voice, the subject (the police) is deleted and the object (the suspect) moves into the subject position followed by a form of the verb to be (was). | |
| Jan 5, 2019 at 21:06 | comment | added | John Arvin | Oh is there an error in your very last answer? The format goes: be stripped [something] of... but now, in your example "the suspect was stripped of [all weapons] and contraband upon arrest". This is now mixed up, sry man, just comfirming the accuracy here since this an English learning website. | |
| Jan 5, 2019 at 17:40 | comment | added | Canadian Yankee | The phrase strip...of can be used for intangible things: "The military court stripped the officer of his rank," or of tangible things: "the suspect was stripped of all weapons and contraband upon arrest." I think the reason it's often classified as an idiom rather than just a phrase is that the idiom carries the implicit meaning that the action is highly negative. | |
| Jan 5, 2019 at 17:26 | comment | added | John Arvin | You know about games. However, how come "stripped of it" becomes an idiom? It's sounds more like just a phrase... I'm also figuring out how to use it in a sentence since it's a bit weird to an ear of a non-native Engish speaker. | |
| Jan 5, 2019 at 16:25 | history | answered | Canadian Yankee | CC BY-SA 4.0 |