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Hanuman_2000 Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

Passive

Sir,

1. I want to sing.

I want to make passive for this, but I have no idea at all.


Please help me.

Thanks.
  

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g. "Fred wants to buy a drink", "the dog wants to go out". The passive of 'to sing' is 'to be sung'.

— PoorRichard

  • g.
  • "Fred wants to buy a drink", "the dog wants to go out".
  • The passive of 'to sing' is 'to be sung'.
  • g.
  • "the song was sung".
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'To want' usually requires a living subject, e.g. "Fred wants to buy a drink", "the dog wants to go out".

The passive of 'to sing' is 'to be sung'. 'To be sung' usually requires a non-living subject, e.g. "the song was sung".

This means that a passive version of 'to want to sing' would require a subject that was both living and non-living, which is not possible.

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Sir,CalifJim

Can you help me.

Thanks.
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I'm sorry, Hanuman, I'll rephrase my previous post:

In theory, the possible passives of 'I want to sing' are:

1. I am wanted to sing.
2. I want to be sung.

In practice, I'm not sure you would ever find an opportunity to use them.
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