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Alif110 Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

Passive & Active Voice

Man is born free.

How do you transform this sentence to active?

  

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Alif110 Man is born free. How do you transform this sentence to active? You can't.

  • Alif110 Man is born free.
  • How do you transform this sentence to active?
  • You can't.
  • "be born" is a passive structure that has no active counterpart with the same meaning.
  • The best you could do is something like this: Every woman who bears a child bears a free man.
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Alif110

Man is born free.

How do you transform this sentence to active?

You can't. "be born" is a passive structure that has no active counterpart with the same meaning. The best you could do is something like this:

Every woman who bears a child bears a free man.

And that's ridiculous.

CJ

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