Appeared to have blocked
Hello,
I run across a weird phrase given below which states that Russia Today's website was blocked for some reasons. However, why did the author not use a passive structure? I, as a native speaker of Persian, interpret the below sentence as the website had this ability to block itself!
The original version:
Earlier, RT’s own website appeared to have blocked, but has since reappeared, meaning it was likely a temporary outage at the network’s own end.
My version:
Earlier, RT’s own website appeared to have [been] blocked, but has since reappeared, meaning it was likely a temporary outage at the network’s own end.
Top answer
anonymous why did the author not use a passive structure? He should have. Although this was written by someone going by the name "Constitutional Nobody", I would bet that it is just a cut-and-paste error.
- anonymous why did the author not use a passive structure?
- He should have.
- Although this was written by someone going by the name "Constitutional Nobody", I would bet that it is just a cut-and-paste error.
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anonymous why did the author not use a passive structure?
He should have. Although this was written by someone going by the name "Constitutional Nobody", I would bet that it is just a cut-and-paste error.
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