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KhoshtipMan Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Grammar

Are the following terms correct?

Something has been occurred
Read him a tale
The night next
  

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Something has been occurred No. Something has occurred. Read him a tale OK.

  • Something has been occurred No.
  • Something has occurred.
  • Read him a tale OK.
  • But the word 'story' is more common .
  • The next night
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Something has been occurred No. Something has occurred.
Read him a tale OK. But the word 'story' is more common.
The night next No.The next night
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You refer to them as ‘terms’, but I call them ‘sentence fragments’.
Read him a tale’ is correctly written; and could be a complete sentence, if followed by a period. It could also become
I read him a tale.’
‘The night next’ is not usually correct in this sequence. Instead, I would normally expect to see ‘The next night’ was our regular Thursday night party. ‘N
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CliveSomething has been occurred No. Something has occurred.
Is "something has occurred" in passive voice?
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wilpeter‘The night next’ is not usually correct in this sequence.
Would you offer some sentence in which that term (or sentence fragment) is correct please?
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Is "Something has occurred" in passive voice? No.
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I thought "something has been occurred" is in passive voice and I posed it because of that. So which is the passive voice for that verb (occur)?
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Occur is an intransitive verb, and so does not have a passive form.
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Blue JayOccur is an intransitive verb, and so does not have a passive form.
Good point, thank you.
And does that mean only transitive verbs have passive form?
For example, the verb give is ditransitive.
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KhoshtipManAnd does that mean only transitive verbs have passive form?For example, the verb give is ditransitive.
No, it's that you need an object in the sentence to form a passive, and an intransitive verb doesn't take an object. A transitive or ditransitive verb can be made passive because there's an object.
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Blue JayNo, it's that you need an object in the sentence to form a passive, and an intransitive verb doesn't take an object. A transitive or ditransitive verb can be made passive because there's an object.
Thank you.

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