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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Grammar

The goverment funded this course. / This course is funded by the goverment.

The goverment is funding this course. / This course is funding by the goverment.

This is goverment funding course. / This is goverment funded course.

Can someone help me to correct these grammars? Thanks a lot.
  

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What do you want us to do? [:^)] First, do you know which is the correct active and passive sentence?

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What do you want us to do?

[:^)] First, do you know which is the correct active and passive sentence?
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Hi, thanks for your reply.

I am not sure which is the correct form. Could you please explain it? Thank you very much.
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AnonymousThe goverment funded this course. (active, ok) / This course is funded by the goverment (passive, ok).

The goverment is funding this course. (active, ok; the sentence implies that the funding is a continuous process)/ This course is funding by the goverment (wrong, people/organizations do the funding not things. In addition the use of the by would requ
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The government funded this course. Active
This course was funded by the government. Passive of the same sentence.

This course is funded by the government. Passive
The government funds this course. Active of the same sentence

Your first two original sentences don't have the same meaning because of the change in tense.

The gover
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