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MyShirley Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Active or passive?

You can decide which norms to be used.

You can decide which norms to use.

Which one is correct?

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MyShirley You can decide which norms to be used. You can decide which norms to use. Which one is correct?

— Milky

  • MyShirley You can decide which norms to be used.
  • You can decide which norms to use.
  • Which one is correct?
  • thanks You can decide which norms are to be used.
  • You can decide which norms to use.
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MyShirleyYou can decide which norms to be used.

You can decide which norms to use.

Which one is correct?

thanks

You can decide which norms are to be used.

You can decide which norms to use.

Now, both are correct.
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MyShirley
You can decide which norms to be used.

You can decide which norms to use.

Which one is correct?"You can decide which norms to use" is correct.

paco
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Paco2004
MyShirley
You can decide which norms to be used.

You can decide which norms to use.

Which one is correct?"You can decide which norms to use" is correct.

paco

As is, "You can decide which norms are to be used."
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I had no intention to say what Milky had said was wrong.

What we have to tell the questioner as a grammar rule is :
The 'WH-word' cannot be the subject of 'to V' in infinitival phrases in the form of 'WH-word to V'. .

So which norms to be used is
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Paco2004I had no intention to say what Milky had said was wrong.

What we have to tell the questioner as a grammar rule is :
The 'WH-word' cannot be the subject of 'to V' in infinitival phrases in the form of 'WH-word to V'. .

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