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Ye Thu Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Active Voice to Passive Voice

People say that everyone likes beauty.
If I rewrite the given sentence as "People say that beauty is liked by everyone," is it correct? Thanks a million.
  

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A more typical change to the passive begins with "It is said that" - using a dummy subject "it" to stand in for "everyone likes beauty."

You should know that 99% of your time spend on exercises on the passive will be completely wasted.
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Ye ThuPeople say that everyone likes beauty.
Are you supposed to change 1) the main clause or 2) the subordinate clause or 3) both to passive?

1) That everyone likes beauty is said by people.
2) People say that beauty is liked by everyone.
3) The beauty is liked by everyone is said by people.

I'm sorry to tell you, however, that all t

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