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Yadoo86 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Help with reducing clauses.

In the following sentence:
I don't like people who advise me.

I know we can reduce it to "I don't like people advising me". However, I don't understand the second sentence:
I don't like being advised

Okay, How can we change to passive even the sentence has already been reduced? .

Thanks in advance.
  

Top answer

What you did was not reducing. You simply changed the relatiave clause to a participle clause. I don't like people who advise me - this sounds unnatural to me.

— Goodman

  • What you did was not reducing.
  • You simply changed the relatiave clause to a participle clause.
  • I don't like people who advise me - this sounds unnatural to me.
  • But you can say "I don't like people who advise me unsolicited".
  • This means you didn't request or ask for advice.
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What you did was not reducing. You simply changed the relatiave clause to a participle clause.

I don't like people who advise me - this sounds unnatural to me. But you can say "I don't like people who advise me unsolicited". This means you didn't request or ask for advice.

I don't like being advised- this is fine. This is agentless passive.
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Hi.
yadoo86I know we can reduce it to "I don't like people advising me". However, I don't understand the second sentence:
I don't like being advised
I don't like when people are advising me what to do.
yadoo86Okay, How can we change to passive even the sentence has already been
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Thank u, your assistance is highly appreciated for me.

Good luck.
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I found this link which talks about passive's gerund and Infinitive form, and I hope that it would be useful : http://www.edufind.com/english/Grammar/Pass1.cfm
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