Obama – America will transform?
オバマで アメリカは 変化 できるか。
The magazine headline hangs in the subway train in Osaka, Japan on 6 December 2008.
Several other stories in this issue are also about Obama and about America.
A Japanese friend remarks, “If I had written the headline, it would have not been so passive. Perhaps the headline writer did not agree with the idea.”
However, she adds, AMERICA cannot be the subject of a passive sentence in Japanese. Grammar restricts passive voice to sentient creatures. In this sentence, America is the subject and the verb is transform. Obama is not the subject of the sentence.
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