maplesyrup
 
Reply Thu 6 Aug, 2015 11:12 am
In the follwing sentence: "she was certainly prepared to listen to anybody", what is "was prepared"?
The simple past in the passive voice, or a simple past + a past participle that funtions as an adjective?
Thank you.
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Reply Thu 6 Aug, 2015 12:15 pm
@maplesyrup,

The latter, it seems to me.
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