Timeline for Verb 'travel' and adverbial noun
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| May 31, 2016 at 14:36 | comment | added | Logan de la Cebra | @J. S. PARK "The books were fallen" doesn't work in English, except perhaps if you are trying to write poetically. With "fallen" you would have to use either "have" or "has/had" as opposed to "were". If you are determined to use a passive form, you could use "were felled", but this is really only seen in reference to trees (as in lumber) or as a sort of archaic way to say that people had been killed, especially by means of disease or war. With books, it would sound very unusual. | |
| May 31, 2016 at 5:22 | comment | added | J. S. PARK | But I think 'The books were fallen' is correct sentence. (Maybe it is because fallen is adjective. I just wonder if other intransitive verbs could be used as 'be + past participle'.) It was not really my question. I've revised a little. | |
| May 31, 2016 at 3:04 | history | answered | LawrenceC | CC BY-SA 3.0 |