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mrwarper
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 Message 33 of 33
21 October 2011 at 3:50am | IP Logged 
I've been thinking about this for a while... either I'm unclear on what the question really is, or it is rather simple.

Are you asking why in several constructions the direct object becomes the subject when the original one is taken out of the sentence? There's really nothing more than 'we thought somebody had to do the job' to it. I'd dub it a kind of phobia to sentences without a subject, even if a bit lighter than its English equivalent, where even verbs like 'rain' have a grammatical subject forced onto them...

Wrt to "se me da la impresión", yes, I see how you would build that out of grammar explanations alone, but as you said, it doesn't happen in real life. Why? Sorry, no answer to that ;)

Edited by mrwarper on 21 October 2011 at 4:26am



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