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Đức Đinh Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Change to passive voice

There're 2 sentences like this:
"You will have to get someone to look at t"his"
"No one believes his story"
How should I change these 2 sentences into passive voice?
  

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What is the transitive verb? What is the object of that transitive verb? Make the object in the original sentence the subject in the passive sentence.

  • What is the transitive verb?
  • What is the object of that transitive verb?
  • Make the object in the original sentence the subject in the passive sentence.
  • The first one will not sound natural at all when it's transformed.
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What is the transitive verb? What is the object of that transitive verb? Make the object in the original sentence the subject in the passive sentence.

The first one will not sound natural at all when it's transformed.
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This will have to be looked at by someone for you.

His story is not believed by anyone.
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Yeah. I thought so as well.....it's just so......weird =.=
And as for anonymous's sentence, I think "by..." should be placed at the end of the sentence :-?
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Your original sentence was telling someone to get someone to review something. That sense of "getting" someone is lost in the suggestion above.
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Someone will have to be prompted by you to look at this.
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If it was like that, then there wouldn't have been anything to say.....
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Ð?c ÐinhIf it was like that, then there wouldn't have been anything to say.....
I don't understand your post.

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