Timeline for What is the difference between “I got stuck” , “I was stuck”, “I'm stuck"?
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| Jul 21, 2021 at 14:58 | comment | added | Darth Pseudonym | If you're asking why this is not considered passive voice, that isn't really relevant in this sentence. The passive voice is when you have both a subject and object of the verb, and you remove the subject or move it after the object. "My father wrecked the car" versus "The car got wrecked". In the case of "I am stuck", there is no object. Even if I added one, as in "I am stuck to the floor" (floor is the object), then it wouldn't really make sense to put that in passive voice. "The floor is stuck to" is grammatically valid, but nonsensical. | |
| Jul 21, 2021 at 14:52 | comment | added | Darth Pseudonym | I'm not sure what you're asking, but I think you're having some confusion between 'am' used as an auxiliary verb to indicate a tense change in another verb -- for example, "I am sticking", where 'sticking' is the verb and 'am' indicates it's an ongoing action (the present continuous tense) -- and 'am' used as a simple verb. In this case, it's a simple verb, and 'stuck' is as you said, an attributive verb, a verb acting as an adjective. "I am stuck" works the same as "I am green" or "I am tired". It's just a simple noun-verb-adjective structure. Does that help? | |
| Jul 21, 2021 at 13:57 | comment | added | MaximPro | So, word "stuck" uses in definition adjective. Right? Because in common form building of sentences, I - noun, am (to be) - auxiliary verb, stuck - verb in second form. So in conclusion I could to say what this sentences formated in Present Simple but in Passive Voice, but I see that it is not. Can you explain my misunderstanding? | |
| Jun 12, 2020 at 15:17 | vote | accept | Pluviophile | ||
| Jun 12, 2020 at 15:08 | history | answered | Darth Pseudonym | CC BY-SA 4.0 |