[Ads-l] Trump's middle voice

[Herb Stahlke]

This morning on Morning Joe there was a clip of Pres.Trump saying, "We have
to take care of health care, and as soon as health care takes care of,
we'll start on tax reform."  It didn't sound like he left out "Itself,"
intending a reflexive construction.  This sounds like the sort of middle
voice construction we have in "This book reads easily," where the verb is
active but the direct object occurs as subject."

Curious.

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