Timeline for What would We use "People stand still" or "People pause" or other terms if the time stopped completely (like in Sci-Fi movies)?
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| Nov 3, 2019 at 10:15 | vote | accept | Tom | ||
| Nov 2, 2019 at 15:09 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I don't think transitive / intransitive is a useful concept when considering usages like I'm frozen! or I'm freezing! They're essentially just participles used adjectivally - where the past participle usage carries no significant nuance of me having been "passively" frozen by some unspecified agency. The difference between He froze and He was frozen is essentially that the first refers to an action (as with He shivered, He stopped), the second to a state, condition (as with He was cold, He was motionless). | |
| Nov 2, 2019 at 14:52 | comment | added | Tom | so, freeze is both transitive & intransitive? "People froze & People were frozen" are 2 legitimate sentences? | |
| Nov 2, 2019 at 13:58 | history | answered | FumbleFingers | CC BY-SA 4.0 |