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Timeline for the beer pours a hazy yellow color

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Aug 27, 2015 at 0:31 comment added J.R. The example that sprung to my mind is, "A new day dawns..."
Aug 26, 2015 at 21:32 vote accept bart-leby
Aug 26, 2015 at 21:32 vote accept bart-leby
Aug 26, 2015 at 21:32
Aug 26, 2015 at 15:39 comment added StoneyB on hiatus @bart-leby 1) These middle-voice or ergative uses are often reserved for specific contexts. In your example, for instance, the connoisseur uses it to speak of the qualities which the beer exhibits when it is poured. You find very similar uses in car reviews: "The Madragora XL drives comfortably and handles smoothly at all speeds." 2) Flying a kite (or an airplane) = cause it to fly. Walking your dog = cause it to walk.
Aug 26, 2015 at 15:30 comment added StoneyB on hiatus @Auracaria As you know (but others may not), it's an adjectivally deployed noun phrase acting as subject-depictive predicate complement. (And if that don't put you off grammar for a month or two you're a better man than I am.)
Aug 26, 2015 at 14:41 comment added bart-leby Thank you for your response. Can I say thus "the beer pours into the glasses"? Could you please give mi one or two examples of the transitive sense representing a causative use of an originally intransitive verb.
Aug 26, 2015 at 14:39 comment added Araucaria - Not here any more. +1 But, I think the sentence might still be confusing for students --> "a hazy yellow colour" kind of looks like an Object. What is it? :)
Aug 26, 2015 at 14:22 history answered StoneyB on hiatus CC BY-SA 3.0