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Shin SSC Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

grammatical voice

Which one is right? "A flash floods", they are hard to predict or they are hard to be predicted.??? have a nice day. I mean the grammatical voice 'passive or active'.
  

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Flash floods—they are hard to predict.

  • Flash floods—they are hard to predict.
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Flash floods—they are hard to predict.
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Flash floods are hard (for us) to predict. The infinitive is active voice. The subject is "us."
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shin SSCthey are hard to predict
All the related forms take the active infinitive, not the passive.

[To predict / Predicting] them is hard. > It is hard to predict them. > They are hard to predict.

You can replace "hard" with "difficult", "tough", or "easy", and the grammar is the same. For a more complete list of adjectives t

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