Grammar help please?
Hi,
Could you please check for me if I have made any mistakes in these "passive voice(s)"?
We can do this in the private treaty or sell, no agents get involved and needed. (Passive)
The deposit is required to be paid once we have agreed the final price. (Passive)
Hold that button for 5 seconds, all codes will be deleted. (Passive)
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John Aki We can do this in the private treaty or sell, no agents get involved and needed. We can do this as a private transaction or as a public sale. No agents need to get involved.
- John Aki We can do this in the private treaty or sell, no agents get involved and needed.
- We can do this as a private transaction or as a public sale.
- No agents need to get involved.
- 'get involved' is a " get passive".
- That's not as usual as a " be passive", and it's not considered a true passive voice construction.
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John AkiWe can do this in the private treaty or sell, no agents get involved and needed.
We can do this as a private transaction or as a public sale. No agents need to get involved.
'get involved' is a "get passive". That's not as usual as a "be passive", and it's not considered a true passive voice construction.
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0John AkiThe deposit is required to be paid once we have agreed the final price.
A deposit IS a payment, so remove "to be paid". Also, there is no previous mention of a deposit, so it's "a deposit" (of an unknown amount), not "the deposit". If "deposit" was mentioned earlier, however, then you can use "the deposit".
We don't "agree some
0John AkiHold that button for 5 seconds,|| and all codes will be deleted.
I have marked the division between two clauses with "| |".
The first clause is an imperative.
The second clause is passive (underlined verb phrase).
Active structures with 'will':
will delete the codes, wil
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