> "$1m in stocks" is a thing that is having appreciation done to it. How? "appreciate" in this sense is not a transitive verb. There cannot be an agent. In an

> "$1m in stocks" is a thing that is having appreciation done to it. How? "appreciate" in this sense is not a transitive verb. There cannot be an agent. In any case, I don't think you need to defend this. It's not about humans never using that pattern, it's about how frequent it is relative to LLMs. Individual counterexamples do not disprove a trend.