Opposed to
“I was furiously opposed to the cuts.”
I came across the above sentence in a few digital dictionaries.
Is it in passive voice that means “I was furiously opposed by someone to the cuts”?
Could “opposed” be simply used as an adjective means “I furiously opposed the cuts”? If this is the case, how to tell it is in active voice, not passive voice?
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healer “I was furiously opposed by someone to the cuts”? The above sentence is ungrammatical. Both I was opposed to the cuts and I opposed the cuts are correct and have the same meaning.
- healer “I was furiously opposed by someone to the cuts”?
- The above sentence is ungrammatical.
- Both I was opposed to the cuts and I opposed the cuts are correct and have the same meaning.
- The first sentence looks like a passive sentence even though the meaning is clearly active.
- The second sentence is grammatically in the active voice.
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healer“I was furiously opposed by someone to the cuts”?
The above sentence is ungrammatical. Both I was opposed to the cuts and I opposed the cuts are correct and have the same meaning. The first sentence looks like a passive sentence even though the meaning is clearly active. The second sentence is grammatically in the active voice.
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