Timeline for "My hand breaks" or "My hand is broken"
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| May 1, 2016 at 16:01 | answer | added | gnasher729 | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 1, 2016 at 11:32 | history | edited | avpaderno |
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| Feb 20, 2016 at 0:36 | comment | added | ruakh | @IlmariKaronen: No, I think the OP is right: in this case it's a true adjective. (Well, I guess it depends on the meaning. In "My hand is broken, so I'm finding it hard to type", it's an adjective; in "Once or twice a year, my hand is broken by one farm implement or another", it's a participle. Without context, I read "My hand is broken" as implying the first reading, but I guess it's ambiguous.) | |
| Feb 19, 2016 at 21:57 | comment | added | Ilmari Karonen | To be precise, "broken" is a past participle: a form of a verb that behaves grammatically like an adjective. | |
| S Feb 19, 2016 at 15:23 | answer | added | caitqlin | timeline score: 2 | |
| S Feb 19, 2016 at 15:23 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Feb 19, 2016 at 14:15 | answer | added | shashikant_ | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 19, 2016 at 13:14 | answer | added | TimR | timeline score: 6 | |
| S Feb 19, 2016 at 13:11 | history | edited | Glorfindel♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Feb 19, 2016 at 13:11 | history | suggested | mrnld | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 19, 2016 at 13:03 | answer | added | Nikikinz | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Feb 19, 2016 at 12:46 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Feb 19, 2016 at 12:43 | history | asked | learner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |