A newspaper is read by my father every day while drinking coffee?
Hi, everyone! I need a help with passive voice.
I read a passive voice worksheet created by my friend (we're not native English speakers). The direction of the exercise is to change active sentences into passive voice.
My father reads a newspaper every day while drinking coffee.
I know that sentence is correct because it is a reduced adverb clause; however, when I change it into passive voice, it somehow seems wrong and confuses me.
* A newspaper is read by my father every day while drinking coffee.
Is the sentence correct? I understand that the verb drinking describes what my father does while he reads a newspaper, but doesn't it sound like a newspaper drinks coffee? Lol I'm not sure. Please let me know your thoughts. Thank you ??
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Is the sentence correct? I understand that the verb drinking describes what my father does while he reads a newspaper, but doesn't it sound like a newspaper drinks coffee? You often have to rely on your readers to use common sense when interpreting a sentence.
- Is the sentence correct?
- I understand that the verb drinking describes what my father does while he reads a newspaper, but doesn't it sound like a newspaper drinks coffee?
- You often have to rely on your readers to use common sense when interpreting a sentence.
- Or you could say 'A newspaper is read every day by my father while drinking coffee'.
- What woud you and your friend say if someone's answer was this?
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Is the sentence correct? I understand that the verb drinking describes what my father does while he reads a newspaper, but doesn't it sound like a newspaper drinks coffee?
You often have to rely on your readers to use common sense when interpreting a sentence.
Or you could say 'A newspaper is read every day by my father while drinking coffee'.
What woud you an
0curiousGeorge123The direction of the exercise is to change active sentences into passive voice.
Good grief. These exercises are nearly always the practice of mechanical manipulation of subject, agent and verb form. They do little to improve your English because you come up with sentences that follow the rules of grammar, but would never ever be spoken by a
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