Learn English – What kind of sentence is “Yesterday is gone”

grammarpassive-voice

Go is an intransitive verb, we can't make a passive sentence from it. But we can say:

Yesterday is gone.

If this isn't the passive voice, what kind of sentence is this? What is its grammatical structure?

Best Answer

"Gone" is the past participle of go, but it functions in this sentence as an adjective (Past participles are formed from verbs. (Past participles just like present participles can be used as adjectives or used to form verb tenses.) "Is" functions as a linking verb and links the subject "Yesterday" with "gone." "Gone" as an adjective "complements" the subject. (The word, phrase, or clause which follows a linking verb to re-identify or describe the subject is called the subject complement.

In terms of sentence type, it's a simple declarative sentence. (A declarative sentence (also known as a statement) makes a statement and ends with a period. It's named appropriately because it declares or states something. These guys don't ask questions, make commands, or make statements with emotion.)

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