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Broken Heart Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
explain that to me with events
Hello everybody,
I would like to ask someone to explain to me passive voice.
The door has been opened (present perfect)
The door has been being opened (present perfect continuous)
The door is opened (simple present )
The door is being opened (present continuous)
I know how to make sentences in passive voice but I don't know in which time to say or write them when I see what.
Thanks
I would like to ask someone to explain to me passive voice.
The door has been opened (present perfect)
The door has been being opened (present perfect continuous)
The door is opened (simple present )
The door is being opened (present continuous)
I know how to make sentences in passive voice but I don't know in which time to say or write them when I see what.
Thanks
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Hello Alia It is a bit tough to explain 'passive voice' using the verb 'open'. First of all you have to know the verb 'open' can mean only an instantaneous action of opening something. So we can say like "The door was opened by the children when their father came back home", when we talk about a past instantaneous action.
- Hello Alia It is a bit tough to explain 'passive voice' using the verb 'open'.
- First of all you have to know the verb 'open' can mean only an instantaneous action of opening something.
- So we can say like "The door was opened by the children when their father came back home", when we talk about a past instantaneous action.
- But we wouldn't say the simple present form "The door is opened" by itself, though we might say like "I'll enter the room as soon as the door is opened (by someone)".
- Likewise we rarely say "The door has been opened" by itself, though we might say like "The door has been opened only once in the past ten years" when we talk about a door to some secret room.
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Hello Alia
It is a bit tough to explain 'passive voice' using the verb 'open'. First of all you have to know the verb 'open' can mean only an instantaneous action of opening something. So we can say like "The door was opened by the children when their father came back home", when we talk about a past instantaneous action. But we wouldn't say the simple present form "The door is opened"
It is a bit tough to explain 'passive voice' using the verb 'open'. First of all you have to know the verb 'open' can mean only an instantaneous action of opening something. So we can say like "The door was opened by the children when their father came back home", when we talk about a past instantaneous action. But we wouldn't say the simple present form "The door is opened"
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Paco2004Hello Alia
It is a bit tough to explain 'passive voice' using the verb 'open'. First of all you have to know the verb 'open' can mean only an instantaneous action of opening something. So we can say like "The door was opened by the children when their father came back home", when we talk about a past instantaneous action. But we wouldn't say the simple p
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Hello Alia
"The food has been being eaten" is also of rare use. A sentence like "Yesterday Tom went to his cornfield and found the crops had been being eaten by insects" might be possible.
As for the second one, you might complain about your teacher's lectures saying "His instructions have been being changed".
paco
"The food has been being eaten" is also of rare use. A sentence like "Yesterday Tom went to his cornfield and found the crops had been being eaten by insects" might be possible.
As for the second one, you might complain about your teacher's lectures saying "His instructions have been being changed".
paco
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Paco2004Hello Aliawell , I under
"The food has been being eaten" is also of rare use. A sentence like "Yesterday Tom went to his cornfield and found the crops had been being eaten by insects" might be possible.
As for the second one, you might complain about your teacher's lectures saying "His instructions have been being changed".
paco
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Yes you are right. I too thought (after I put the message) we would use "change" as an intransitive verb in that case. I'm sorry for this. So I would rewrite it as "His instructions have been being changed by the school principal".
paco
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"The engineers are now checking the machine".
"The machine is now being checked (by the enginners)"
paco
"The machine is now being checked (by the enginners)"
paco
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Oh , I become crazy girl
well if I saying
Jay is reading the book.
It's now at 4.00 pm
the passive voice saying
the book is being read by Jay
some time saying without by jay
the book is being read
it's correct
well if I saying
Jay is reading the book.
It's now at 4.00 pm
the passive voice saying
the book is being read by Jay
some time saying without by jay
the book is being read
it's correct
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"Jay is now reading the book" --> passivize --> "The book is now being read by Jay"
You can do this way as an exercise about how to make a passive sentence. But strictly speaking, "The book is now being read by Jay" sounds weird to native speaker's ears. In English, passivization is possible only when something happens with the state of the subject in the passive sentence by the ev
You can do this way as an exercise about how to make a passive sentence. But strictly speaking, "The book is now being read by Jay" sounds weird to native speaker's ears. In English, passivization is possible only when something happens with the state of the subject in the passive sentence by the ev
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