adkikani wrote:
Can you please elaborate on active vs passive voice in (A) emphasizing why needed is a verb-ed modifier?
Hiadkikani , indeed it does becometricky sometimes to distinguish betweensimple past tense (verb) andpast participles (adjectives).
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