Passive forms with gerunds
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Could you help me with this?
I came across these sentences while I was learning about passive voice.
I avoid seeing him.
He avoids being seen.
I don't mind teaching her.
She doesn't mind being taught.
My question
Do the sentences in passive voice sound all right in line with their active equivalents?
I somehow feel that the passive voice with the action verbs—"avoids" and "doesn't mind"—placed after the objects("him" and "her") are unnecessarily tagging them as actors.
Please give your views.
Top answer
vsuresh I avoid seeing him. He avoids being seen. I don't mind teaching her.
- vsuresh I avoid seeing him.
- He avoids being seen.
- I don't mind teaching her.
- She doesn't mind being taught.
- The underlined sentences are correct, but they are not the passive forms of the original sentences.
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vsureshI avoid seeing him.
He avoids being seen.
I don't mind teaching her.
She doesn't mind being taught.
The underlined sentences are correct, but they are not the passive forms of the original sentences. The passive forms, if they existed, would have to be something like "Seeing him is avoided (by me)" and "Being taught isn't mi
0vsureshI avoid seeing him. He avoids being seen.I don't mind teaching her.She doesn't mind being taught.I somehow feel that the passive voice with the action verbs—"avoids" and "doesn't mind"—placed after the objects("him" and "her") are unnecessarily tagging them as actors.
I don't follow you. The only direct objects in your examples are "him" and "her", w
0vsureshHe avoids being seen.
Here are some better sentences with the passive form of the present participle.
The passive voice verb forms are underlined. All other verbs are active form. The main verb in the sentence is a catenative verb.
Burglars avoid being caught by the police by wearing dark clothes and working at night.
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