"arrange" in passive
Can't we make a passive with "arrange" like #2?
1. "Alastair arranged to take Kathy to the station."
2. "Kathy was arranged to be taken to the station."
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Tara2 Can't we make a passive with "arrange" like #2? It abides by the transformation rules of English grammar, but no native speaker would utter that sentence.
- Tara2 Can't we make a passive with "arrange" like #2?
- It abides by the transformation rules of English grammar, but no native speaker would utter that sentence.
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Tara2Can't we make a passive with "arrange" like #2?
It abides by the transformation rules of English grammar, but no native speaker would utter that sentence.
0You could say "It was arranged that Alastair (would/should) take Kathy to the station."
0Tara2Kathy was arranged
No, no. There is nothing in the first sentence that says that somebody arranged Kathy, so you can't say that Kathy was arranged. By arranging to take her to the station, Alistair didn't "arrange Kathy".
Transforming this one to passive in the usual manner results in a very bad (ungrammatical) sentence:
*To take Kathy
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