I was learning about ACTIVE and PASSIVE sentences and came across this particular example. I know a sentence is said to be Active when the subject of the particular sentence performs the action. For example, “The hunter killed an antelope.” In the Passive form it will be “An antelope was killed by the hunter.” A … Read more
1.Rama married Sita 2.Sita was married by Rama ” The Teacher’s Travelogue ” prepared by the Regional Institute of India, Banglore discussed the use of active and passive voice. It goes on to say that the passive voice( sentence 2) is grammatically correct but different in meaning from the active voice ( sentence 1) According … Read more
wiktionary.org offers Verb smite: 6. (figuratively, now only in passive) To strike with love or infatuation. Bob was smitten with Laura from the first time he saw her. I wonder whether this smitten is rather an adjective at least syntactically Answer smitten adjective… deeply affected with or struck by strong feelings of attraction, affection, or … Read more
One of the professors of English named Rama murthy announced 10 years ago that he had invented a rare third passive use. He gave the following sentence for his analysis. He gave her books The passive forms are given below She was given books by him. Her books were given by him Books were given … Read more
I was searching on the meaning of skirt in Longman dictionary and I found the definition which is: “a piece of outer clothing worn by women and girls”, Why did not he say: “a piece of outer clothing is worn by women and girls”, Why did they not use an auxiliary verb? Answer “a piece … Read more
Once the employees have completed the company’s largest project successfully, they will be offered an opportunity to be considered for a promotion. I found that sentence in my English book and this is a little bit confusing because I am not sure WHO consider the opportunity between the employees and the company. First, I understand … Read more
What would be the syntactic function of Intikas in the following sentence? They are called Intikas in their language. It seems to me that in this case the verb call is behaving as a copulative verb, since Intikas can be identified with the subject they and, as a consequence, work as a sort of nominative … Read more
I’ve tried typing this question or variations of this question into Google to no avail, so I apologize if it has already been answered elsewhere. I’m trying to edit a paper for a class in which the instructor has written the following: I know that [to be verbs] CAN have the proper place, so don’t … Read more
I learned English autodidactically by reading books , watching movies , video games , etc…. But, there are some things in english that confused me , such as passive forms. What’s the difference between ‘x cannot be stolen‘ and ‘x cannot be steal‘? . Are both in passive forms and have the same meaning ? … Read more
The question is really simple, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to convert this sentence from active voice to passive voice, or at least to a natural-sounding paraphrase ‘depersonalised’ to the extent that the inanimate object becomes the subject. The sentence: He has money. I am able to convert other … Read more
