[General Tacticus]

Originally posted by Arryn:

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Originally posted by General Tacticus:
Gone is a past participle, not an adjective. As for your second sentence, it is not grammatically correct... I guess English is your native language

This is why English is such a hard language for non-natives to learn. Gone is an adjective. Look it up in the MW Online dictionary. The context makes it a past participle (of the word 'go'). It is 'inconsistencies' such as this that drive people nuts.

And yes, the second sentence I gave is, indeed, poor grammar. But it is very common usage. How many times have you heard a phrase like "My son did what?" or "She went where?" Bad grammar to an English teacher, but normal speech in everyday life.

OTOH, a statement like "Where my horror at?" is only to be heard by children not yet old enough to have gone to school and been taught the rudiments of grammar -- which they tend to forget just a few short years later in their teen years And by those same older kids, and adults, who wish to sound 'cool' by rejecting the manners of society, in this case language, and using a slang dialect that attempts to exclude those that wouldn't be caught sounding that stupid. {yes, I hate rap-crap music, too}

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All right, I can accept that gone is also an adjective. My own language, French, also has some words who are both part participles and adjectives. But in this context it was clearly a past participle
And I found English rather pleasant and easy to learn, compared to my native French, or my first foreign language German. When it comes to inconsistencies and exceptions, French really shines. One short example : adjectives are usually placed after the noun they qualify. Except, of course, those exceptions that are placed before. And those that can be placed before or after, whichever you choose. And then, you have a few rare adjectives that actually change meaning, depending whether they are placed before or after.