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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Can anyone turn this to passive?
My dad died of a grievous sickness last December
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Sorry, no. "Died" is not a transitive verb, a requirement for making a passive sentence. Cancer stole my father from me.
- Sorry, no.
- "Died" is not a transitive verb, a requirement for making a passive sentence.
- Cancer stole my father from me.
- - To steal is a transitive verb, so you can turn this one around: My father was stolen from me by cancer.
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Sorry, no. "Died" is not a transitive verb, a requirement for making a passive sentence.
Cancer stole my father from me. - To steal is a transitive verb, so you can turn this one around: My father was stolen from me by cancer.
Cancer stole my father from me. - To steal is a transitive verb, so you can turn this one around: My father was stolen from me by cancer.
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