In a similar vein, there expressions that have no active form. The only
one that comes to mind right now is "to have been had", but there are
others.
> Another one would be "I'm delighted to see you." While we
> do use "delight" actively ("Her antics delighted her father"),
> when we use it passively, I think we're focusing more on
> an internal state of feeling than on receiving some kind of
> action.
Is "I'm delighted to see you" passive? I don't think so. To include an
agent here would be unthinkable: "*I'm delighted by William to see
you." I think that "delighted" here is being used as an ordinary
adjective and the sentence is synonymous with "I'm happy to see you."
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Ron Ross