Questions tagged [passive-voice]
The passive voice is a grammatical construction (a "voice") in which the subject of a sentence or clause denotes the recipient of the action (the patient) rather than the performer (the agent).
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Run or ran correct? [duplicate]
Ewes are pasture ran all year on grass.
Or
Ewes are pasture run all year on grass.
Which is correct American English?
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Past participle or adjective?
John is highly educated.
John was educated in London.
According to traditional grammar, educated is an adjective in the first sentence and a verb in the second sentence (past participle).
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What is the passive voice of sentence "When I met you." [closed]
The sentence when did I meet you? Is an interrogative sentence,
Its voice would be:
when were you met by me?
But the given sentence is When I met you.
This is not an interrogative sentence.
This ...
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was/were + Past Participle and a verb in the -ing form
I am having trouble understanding the grammar structure of the following sentence:
He was done eating.
My problem is trying to explain why the passive form is followed by an ing form.
I do not know ...
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A service-oriented architecture–developed application vs An application developed with a service-oriented architecture
I know the following kind of transformation can be done to turn passive voice into active voice when there is an actor preceded by the preposition by:
An application developed by Microsoft should be ...
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Are passives like "it was decided / planned to do" correct?
Such structures seem wrong to me but I've come across such usage in "The Cyberiad" by Stanisław Lem, excellently translated from Polish by Michael Kandel.
... it was decided to withhold the ...
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Passive voice for imperative sentences
What would the passive voice for an imperative sentence, for, for example, -
Open the door
be?
I think it can be either
The door must be opened by you
or
Let the door be opened
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"Some folks are born made to wave the flag." Is this sentence in the passive voice? [closed]
I have to do a text study, a text interpretation, and I chose the song "Fortunate Son" by the American rock band Creedence.
At starting it, the sentence: "Some folks are born made to ...
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Easier said than done vs. Easier to say than do
As a speaker of English as a second language, I've long been curious to know why English speakers would choose to say "Easier said than done" over "Easier to say than do".
Why ...
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What will be the passive voice sentences for these sentences? [closed]
How many men are there?
How much milk he buys?
There are books.
It is a toy.
Books are there.
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A linking verb or a part of the verb phrase?
I just came across the following sentences, and it just kept me thinking for hours and searching up grammar rules, but it was in vain. The question is about identifying verbal phrases:
The apples ...
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How do sentences like 'he is said to' work?
People say that he steals motorcycles -> He is said by people to steal motorcycles
People say that he will steal motorcycles -> He is said by people to steal motorcycles
People say that he ...
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Is it grammatical to say "a request met with refusal"?
I've been going over some English comprehension tests with my students and I've stumbled upon a sentence that's been bugging me.
(Jack / request / have) ______ a day off met with his employer’s ...
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Usage of Passive Voice [duplicate]
Recently, I got an internship as a Content Writer, and they issue a report for the work done using Grammarly for further corrections before finalizing. I have noticed that a lot of the suggested ...
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Is it idiomatic to say "Something is gotten from somebody"?
For a sentence
I got this book from Tom,
if we simply rewrite it with passive voice, it would seem to be like
This book was gotten from Tom.
But I haven't quite met such expressions as
Something ...
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