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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

English grammar

My colleague Joe handled a case/activity on our job. Can that be described with the following sentence?
The case has been taken care by Joe.

This the way I want to write but Joe says that I should write:
The case has been taken care of Joe.

What is right according to the grammar?
  

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It should be "The case has been taken care of by Joe."
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The passive voice is grammatically correct and possible:

The case has been taken care of by Joe.

However, the active voice, also grammatically correct, is much stronger:

Joe has taken care of the case.
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Sorry– didn't see you there, Mr W, when I posted.
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