Timeline for Why isn’t “the passengers were perished” correct?
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| Aug 6, 2021 at 6:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/1423524264116957185 | ||
| Jul 29, 2021 at 20:02 | answer | added | Deschele Schilder | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 29, 2021 at 14:14 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @ColleenV Yes, I'd agree with you there. But if you're brave enough to post a question, which can be nerve wracking, why not post a clarification in a comment. Or better still, edit the question! Zero edits by the OP. | |
| Jul 29, 2021 at 14:11 | comment | added | ColleenV | @Mari-LouA I view people who are willing to engage with native speakers of a language that they’re still learning as terribly brave. If they have an answer that satisfies them, I’m not too surprised that they might not want to discuss it further. | |
| Jul 29, 2021 at 14:10 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A |
@charmer The use of 'were' implies that they are not perished anymore. i.e. they've risen from the dead Would "The spies were killed" mean that the spies are no longer dead? What about "The house was destroyed in the storm." does that imply the house was rebuilt? No.
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| Jul 29, 2021 at 14:08 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @ColleenV A cursory look at the OP's profile page tells me that they never respond to comments nor any (if any) requests for clarification, which is a shame and puzzling at the same time. | |
| Jul 29, 2021 at 13:06 | comment | added | ColleenV | @Mari-LouA I agree. There are far too many sub-standard texts out there purporting to teach English. Sometimes though having someone correct a mistake is a better lesson than being told the information. | |
| Jul 29, 2021 at 12:28 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @ColleenV I would like to bet a small sum of money that the question was taken from an English grammar exercise book and the OP copied the text incorrectly. It wouldn't be the first time, it certainly won't be the last. I am always going on about sources, and if the OP has correctly copied the text. However, if the aim of the exercise is to identify any errors in the text/sentences this would explain the anomaly. But if the exercise had "The plane was crashed" then it is rubbish and the OP is well advised to throw the entire book away. | |
| Jul 29, 2021 at 9:47 | answer | added | cmza | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 29, 2021 at 9:14 | comment | added | avpaderno | It could be the question is too basic, but in some languages the translation of passenger perished would be passengers are perished. (Italian is one of those languages.) I can understand why a user could be confused by how to correctly use the past tense in English, even though the comment by @charmer about "were" vs "are" also applies to Italian. | |
| Jul 27, 2021 at 22:48 | answer | added | Panzercrisis | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 27, 2021 at 8:19 | answer | added | anotherdave | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 26, 2021 at 21:47 | answer | added | Acccumulation | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 26, 2021 at 21:46 | answer | added | user140171 | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jul 26, 2021 at 21:03 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jul 26, 2021 at 16:41 | history | edited | ColleenV | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 26, 2021 at 14:39 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I’m voting to close this question because it's asking us to interpret a text fragment that probably wasn't even written by a native speaker | |
| Jul 26, 2021 at 14:00 | vote | accept | jbn | ||
| Jul 26, 2021 at 13:33 | comment | added | Weather Vane | ...and another transitive use is "the rubber seal was perished (rotten)." | |
| Jul 26, 2021 at 13:33 | answer | added | Canadian Yankee | timeline score: 48 | |
| Jul 26, 2021 at 13:32 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 26, 2021 at 13:16 | comment | added | Weather Vane | Aside: there is another usage of perished. "We were perished" means "We were very cold." See Lexico³. | |
| Jul 26, 2021 at 13:16 | answer | added | Luke Sawczak | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jul 26, 2021 at 13:01 | history | asked | jbn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |