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Bobleader Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

Need help

im new here, also new to learn english.
i got lots of questions .
today, i need to know what is .....

a movie "called"...
a movie is "called"....

are they same . passive voice?

or something like i have a friend named John, i'm alway confused with it

thank you all. and i will come back with new question..
  

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Hi Bob, Welcome to English Forums. You haven't given us complete sentences, so I'm not quite sure what you are wondering about. ' These are both passive in form, but the sentence structure is quite different, as you can see.

  • Hi Bob, Welcome to English Forums.
  • You haven't given us complete sentences, so I'm not quite sure what you are wondering about.
  • ' These are both passive in form, but the sentence structure is quite different, as you can see.
  • (2) is a passive sentence-- the main verb 'carry' is in the passive voice.
  • 'Called' in (1) is the head of a nonfinite clause used as an adjective for 'movie'.
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Hi Bob,

Welcome to English Forums.

You haven't given us complete sentences, so I'm not quite sure what you are wondering about. Let me off a completion of the sentences:

(1) 'A movie called 'Star Wars' is now showing.'
(2) 'A movie is called by a catchy title in order to gain a greater audience.'

These are both passive in form, but the s
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thank you so much Mister Micawber
now i understand. that is a shortened form
thank you

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