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Persian Learner Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Causative in passive voice

Hi.

I made him work hard.

He was made to work hard.

Why do we use the bare infinitive in active and to-infinitive in the passive voice in the above examples?

Does it come with the territory or is there a rule behind it?

  

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Persian Learner Does it come with the territory or is there a rule behind it? It comes with the territory, and that is the rule behind it. CJ

— CalifJim

  • Persian Learner Does it come with the territory or is there a rule behind it?
  • It comes with the territory, and that is the rule behind it.
  • CJ
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Persian LearnerDoes it come with the territory or is there a rule behind it?

It comes with the territory, and that isthe rule behind it.

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Historically, there is evidence that the to-infinitive was used in the active voice. Here are two examples.

King James Bible, Psalm 23, verse 2: He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
Henry VI, Part III: He rose against him, being his sovereign, And made him to resign his crown perforce.

In the active voice, the infinitive has a lexical subject, and the

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