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Mohineesh Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
need help in understanding th sentence
the sentence "it cannot be bought and it cannot be done!
i am not getting it in which form it has been written [which tense]
and which sense bought and done are used ???
i am not getting it in which form it has been written [which tense]
and which sense bought and done are used ???
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mohineesh which sense bought and done are used ? cannot be bought (by anyone) and cannot be done (by anyone).
- mohineesh which sense bought and done are used ?
- cannot be bought (by anyone) and cannot be done (by anyone).
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mohineeshwhich sense bought and done are used ?Those are past participles, and they are used in forming the present tense passive voice:
..cannot be bought (by anyone) and cannot be done (by anyone).
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'Be bought' is the bare infinitive, passive, following the modal form 'cannot'.
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so in the context be is used as a helping verb like have and has are used with past participle?
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