Active Voice VS Passive Voice
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In a video i watched on youtube some one says "The mattress in hotel was crawling with bugs".
here is the video link, watch it from 28 sec for the sentence above.
As per my knowledge the above sentence is Active voice because subject Mattress not doing any action and the Passive voice form is "Sub+WAS/WERE+P.P".
The above sentence should be "The Mattress in the hotel were being crawled with bugs".
is the given sentence correct grammatically. if ,could you explain how?
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train tileThe mattress in their hotel room was crawling with bugs.
Correct. It's a special use of "crawl". The bugs were crawling in such great numbers that it gave the appearance that the whole mattress was crawling. The expression is not l
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