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Kingston123 Posted 9 years ago
Grammar
Convert this to passive voice
Tom had been sitting in the garden for 2 hours when his friends went to the cinema.
I tried:
The garden had been sat in for two hours by Tom by the time the cinema was attended by his friends.
But it does not make any sense.
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kingston123 But it does not make any sense. Yes. In English, we do not convert the verb into passive if it is in perfect continuous tense, which is the case in your sentence.
- kingston123 But it does not make any sense.
- Yes.
- In English, we do not convert the verb into passive if it is in perfect continuous tense, which is the case in your sentence.
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kingston123But it does not make any sense.
Yes. In English, we do not convert the verb into passive if it is in perfect continuous tense, which is the case in your sentence.
http://www.studyandexam.com/passive-voice-for-intransitive-verb.html
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