I’ve had a few questions about the passive. We went through that maybe a little quickly in class, and a while ago. The main thing to know about the passive is that, in a passive sentence, there is a Pass auxiliary (“be”) which has, as a condition, that the vP in its complement not have …

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For doing homework 7, and just for thinking about recursive possession, you might find it helpful to look at this example tree, for My brother’s roommate kissed Fritz. (posted on last year’s blog).