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Use 'welcomed' or 'welcomes' here.
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| #3 (permalink) Fri May 02, 2008 10:44 am When we use "welcome" and "welcomed" |
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| Can't figure out what you mean sir. Could you please explain clearer |
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| #4 (permalink) Fri May 02, 2008 13:27 pm When we use "welcome" and "welcomed" |
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The headmaster welcomed all the students yesterday / in the past /etc.
The headmaster welcomes all the students every day / every year /etc.
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| #5 (permalink) Sat May 03, 2008 16:48 pm When we use "welcome" and "welcomed" |
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Excuse me, is "welcomed" the past of the verb "welcome" and is "welcome" the past participle of it?
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| #6 (permalink) Sat May 03, 2008 20:11 pm When we use "welcome" and "welcomed" |
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No, the past participle of the verb 'welcome' is 'welcomed'.
However, the word 'welcome' also functions as an adjective.
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| #7 (permalink) Mon May 05, 2008 6:10 am When we use "welcome" and "welcomed" |
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So the word "welcome" in this sentence is an adjective and not a past participle?
You're welcome.
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| #8 (permalink) Mon May 05, 2008 11:28 am When we use "welcome" and "welcomed" |
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The past participle ends in -ed.
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| #9 (permalink) Tue May 06, 2008 15:26 pm When we use "welcome" and "welcomed" |
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Thanks a lot, MM. But could you please explain more about the sentence "you're welcome"? why isn't it "you're welcomed"?
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| #10 (permalink) Tue May 06, 2008 15:36 pm When we use "welcome" and "welcomed" |
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The word welcome is an adjective in the expression You're welcome.
Perhaps if you try to write a few sentences of your own using the past tense of the verb welcome (welcomed) in the active voice you will begin to see a difference, Nessie.
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| #11 (permalink) Tue May 06, 2008 17:18 pm When we use "welcome" and "welcomed" |
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She welcomed us to her house
We've welcomed the newcomers to our school very warmly
They are welcomed to the country
=> I still see no difference, Amy, what exactly do you mean?
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| #12 (permalink) Tue May 06, 2008 23:10 pm When we use "welcome" and "welcomed" |
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She welcomed us to her house. (active)
Tell me how she welcomed you. Give me all of the details about how she welcomed you. What did she do?
We've welcomed the newcomers to our school very warmly. (active)
Tell me how you welcomed the newcomers. What did you do and how did you make the welcome seem 'warm'?
They are welcomed to the country. (passive)
Who welcomed them? What did people do in order to welcome them to the country?
=> I still see no difference, Amy, what exactly do you mean? |
OK, you gave me two active sentences and one passive sentence. Now answer my questions, Nessie.
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| #13 (permalink) Wed May 07, 2008 7:16 am When we use "welcome" and "welcomed" |
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But... Amy, why do you want me to answer those questions? may be I'm so dumb (+_+) but how do they relate to our original matter?
Besides, the questions are a bit too specific and because it isn't mentioned in the sentences, then how can we know exactly how "she" welcomed "us" or how "we" welcomed "the newcomers" or how "they" are "welcomed" and by whom?
I know you don't ask me to do this just for the sake of the answers of those questions, but what do you imply? :shock:
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| #14 (permalink) Wed May 07, 2008 11:41 am When we use "welcome" and "welcomed" |
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I had been hoping you would use your imagination to supply some details about how one person might go about welcoming another person, Nessie.
The point is that the verb 'to welcome' involves action and there are a variety of things you might do in order to welcome someone.
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| #15 (permalink) Thu May 08, 2008 15:15 pm When we use "welcome" and "welcomed" |
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I still don't understand, Amy. Surely I know there are a variety of things we can do to welcome someone, and if you want, I can imagine some of these things, but how is it related to our original matter, which is the difference between the use of "welcome" as a adjective in the sentence "you're welcome" and the use of "welcomed" as a past participle in the sentence "you're welcomed"?
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