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Olive train 503 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar
"are being paid" or "are paid"
I was doing an exercise which asked me to change the sentences into passive structures. The sentence was "We pay them a lot of money for doing very little." I changed it into "They are being paid a lot of momey ..." but the book had "They are paid ..." as an answer. Was my answer wrong? If yes, why?
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olive train 503 Was my answer wrong? As for grammar, yours is not wrong at all, but as for a class exercise, the passive of 'we pay them' is irrevocably 'they are paid by us'.
- olive train 503 Was my answer wrong?
- As for grammar, yours is not wrong at all, but as for a class exercise, the passive of 'we pay them' is irrevocably 'they are paid by us'.
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olive train 503Was my answer wrong?
As for grammar, yours is not wrong at all, but as for a class exercise, the passive of 'we pay them' is irrevocably 'they are paid by us'.
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