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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Have+ been + verb + pp
Four buses and a taxi have been torched in Dhaka on the eve of a nationwide shutdown called by the BNP-led 18-party alliance
Why dont we say have torched instead of have been torched or have been being torched?
Why dont we say have torched instead of have been torched or have been being torched?
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Hi, Active voice - Rioters have torched four buses and a taxi. Passive voice - Four buses and a taxi have been torched (by rioters). Have you learned Passive Voice yet?
- Hi, Active voice - Rioters have torched four buses and a taxi.
- Passive voice - Four buses and a taxi have been torched (by rioters).
- Have you learned Passive Voice yet?
- 'Have been being torched' is a more complicated and less common form of the Passive.
- Clive
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Hi,
Active voice - Rioters have torched four buses and a taxi.
Passive voice - Four buses and a taxi have been torched (by rioters).
Have you learned Passive Voice yet?
'Have been being torched' is a more complicated and less common form of the Passive.
Clive
Active voice - Rioters have torched four buses and a taxi.
Passive voice - Four buses and a taxi have been torched (by rioters).
Have you learned Passive Voice yet?
'Have been being torched' is a more complicated and less common form of the Passive.
Clive
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"To torch" is a transitive verb, which means it always takes an object. Rioters (maybe) torched the vehicles, so four buses and a taxi have been torched [by rioters].
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AnonymousFour buses and a taxi have been torched ... Why don't we say have torched instead of have been torchedTo torch is to set fire to something, to make something burn.
Buses have torched therefore means that the buses have set fire to something.
Buses do not have the ability to set fire to things. They can't make things burn.
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The more important point there is not "rioters" but "four buses and a taxi".
so,the subject is "Four buses and a taxi have been ~~
"rioters" is not an important thing here, "four buses and a taxi is focused".
and,the expression" have been being torched " is not proper
The action "torch" is not in the middle of doing something.
so,the subject is "Four buses and a taxi have been ~~
"rioters" is not an important thing here, "four buses and a taxi is focused".
and,the expression" have been being torched " is not proper
The action "torch" is not in the middle of doing something.
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