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The stretch of text “many thousands of words which are reported to have been formed in this fashion” is an example of im...

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457941201870197
Ano: 2025Banca: FGVOrganização: SEDUC-MTDisciplina: Língua InglesaTemas: Voz Ativa e Voz Passiva
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Is other a verb?


    Like many English words, other possesses great flexibility in meaning and function. Over the past few centuries, it has served as an adjective, an adverb, a noun, and a pronoun. In recent decades, other has increased its part-of-speech portfolio to include verb use, having acquired the meaning "to treat or consider (a person or a group of people) as alien to oneself or one's group.” Some people find it disconcerting when a word takes on a new part of speech, a process known as functional shift. The phenomenon is quite common, however -- our language contains many thousands of words which are reported to have been formed in this fashion.


https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/other.
The stretch of text “many thousands of words which are reported to have been formed in this fashion” is an example of impersonal passive voice – which shows, for instance, what an unspecified group of people say or believe. One instance of this type of passive is
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