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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Changing to Passive

Hi, all,
Is this fine 'the mustard never been cut'
  

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Anonymous Changing to Passive If you want something changed to passive, you must provide the active sentence. Anonymous 'the mustard never been cut' This is not correct English. It contains a fragment of a passive construction, but it's not 'fine'.

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous Changing to Passive If you want something changed to passive, you must provide the active sentence.
  • Anonymous 'the mustard never been cut' This is not correct English.
  • It contains a fragment of a passive construction, but it's not 'fine'.
  • CJ
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Anonymous Changing to Passive
If you want something changed to passive, you must provide the active sentence.
Anonymous'the mustard never been cut'
This is not correct English. It contains a fragment of a passive construction, but it's not 'fine'.

CJ
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I mean to be flexible with idiom, as for instance 'He practices a lot, but has never able to speak French fluently. He admits that the mustard hasn't been cut very well'.

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AnonymousI mean to be flexible with idiom
No, you can't change idioms. Idioms are fixed groups of words, and they have to be used the same way every time. Here, the idiom is "to cut the mustard", not "for the mustard to have been cut".

CJ
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