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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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Acitive to Passive

Onions sell at high prices?
  

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Anonymous Onions sell at high prices. This is a classic! It's in active voice, but since there's no object, there's no passive equivalent.

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  • Anonymous Onions sell at high prices.
  • This is a classic!
  • It's in active voice, but since there's no object, there's no passive equivalent.
  • " This is also active voice, as I'm sure you realize.
  • " This is in passive voice.
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AnonymousOnions sell at high prices.
This is a classic! It's in active voice, but since there's no object, there's no passive equivalent.

"She sells onions at high prices." This is also active voice, as I'm sure you realize.

These are two different senses of "sell."

"Onions are sold at high prices." This is in passive voice.
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