Passive infintive
I was reading on Cambridge website that "passive infinitives" are used when we want to focus on the receiver or when we don't want to mention the agent. Above all of these, there must be a first verb which needs an infinitive form of a verb after that. I was reading a text and I couldn't find the first verb in the sentence. Can you help me to clarify it? Thanks
Kai Kensavaong will never again walk along the muddy lanes of Sop On, the village in southern Laos where she was born. Her old home now lies at the bottom of a reservoir of brown water created to feed a hydroelectric power plant, the first to be funded by the World Bank for over twenty years.
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Abbas Rajabpour Above all of these, there must be a first verb which needs an infinitive form of a verb after that. Not always true. Abbas Rajabpour I was reading a text and I couldn't find the first verb in the sentence.
- Abbas Rajabpour Above all of these, there must be a first verb which needs an infinitive form of a verb after that.
- Not always true.
- Abbas Rajabpour I was reading a text and I couldn't find the first verb in the sentence.
- Because that text is one such example.
- Abbas Rajabpour Can you help me to clarify it?
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Abbas Rajabpour Above all of these, there must be a first verb which needs an infinitive form of a verb after that.
Not always true.
Abbas RajabpourI was reading a text and I couldn't find the first verb in the sentence.
Because that text is one such example.
Abbas RajabpourCan you help
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