no passive!!!

[ABDALLA ALI]

I gave a beggar a dollar
begin with dollar without passive

 

[corum]

I gave a beggar a dollar
begin with dollar without passive

A dollar is what I gave a beggar. -- pseudo-cleft

 

[nado92]

A dollar is what I gave a beggar. -- pseudo-cleft

or
A dollar was my gift to the beggar.
A dollar has gone to the beggar.

 

[ABDALLA ALI]

thanks teachers

 

[ABDALLA ALI]

can i find here any practice for the S.A.T??

 

[nado92]

can i find here any practice for the S.A.T??

ًwhat do you mean?

 

[corum]

SAT Grammar : Practice tests and explanations

 

[ABDALLA ALI]

thanks man

 

[ABDALLA ALI]

i asked my teacher about it and he said it is impossible to begin with dollar without passive

 

[mmasny]

So he was wrong. Did you show him corum's sentence?

 

[ABDALLA ALI]

ya i did

 

[mmasny]

And what did he say about this sentence? Did he say it was wrong?

 

[BobK]

And what did he say about this sentence? Did he say it was wrong?

He can't have said it was wrong, because it's not. Perhaps he thought it changed the meaning...? When I say 'I gave the man a dollar' you don't know (until I've spoken) whether I gave him anything at all. But you can't (meaningfully) say 'A dollar is what I gave him' unless someone else has asked 'What did you give him? [I know you gave him something/I know you gave him some money, but how much?']

b

 

[corum]

A dollar is what I gave a beggar. -- pseudo-cleft

Begins with dollar? Yes.
Passive? No.
Is the core meaning retained? Yes.

End of story. :up:

 

[ABDALLA ALI]

i did

 

[Raymott]

So, you don't want to tell us what your teacher said when you corrected him? I can think of three possibilities:
- He changed his mind.
- He stuck to his original position.
- He did not commit himself to an answer.

 

[ABDALLA ALI]

he said "it was a joke"

 

[mmasny]

he said "it was a joke"

A good one :-/

 

[IHIVG]

A good one :-/

A bad one! So much for his credibility.