I apologize for being pedantic but "has broken" in this context is not in the passive voice, but rather the active voice and perfect aspect. The real question is, who did it break?
Come to think of it, I don't think "has broken" can be in the passive voice in any context, since it lacks a copular verb. The closest passive construction would be "has been broken".
any transitive verb can be passivized. 'break' is just confusing because it's ambitransitive and already has the passive meaning in its intransitive form
Yes, any transitive verb can be passivized, but the passivization would be "has been broken" or "was broken" or "is broken" or "appears broken" or the like, not "has broken". That's all I was saying with the last post.
It IS interesting how the meaning of "break" in its intransitive form is opposite to the meaning in its transitive form, so to speak. There must be other verbs which act like that too, but I can't think of them right now.
No, that's a bokken. "Broken" is an American heavy metal band formed in 1978 whose charting hits were "Burning Like A Flame", "In My Dreams", and "Alone Again".
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Morning has interrupted the long night!
"...like the first morning."
Put non-poetically, he now realizes it's a design flaw, rather than the one-off manufacturing defect he suggested in the RIA.
Gave the blackbird a 5-star review. So pleased, he ordered another.