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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Passive to active voice change

Please can anyone tell me the translation of the following sentence from passive to active voice:

"What is done cannot be undone"

Thanks in advance
  

Top answer

Hi, What people do, they cannot undo. Clive

  • Hi, What people do, they cannot undo.
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Hi,

What people do, they cannot undo.

Clive
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We do not know who the agent is here so it we must use some dummy agent like "somebody". So that would give us "What is done (by somebody) cannot be undone (presumably by either the original actor or by anybody).

So, using the now explicit agents: "What somebody does they cannot undo" or "What somebody does nobody can undo".

To be honest, I don't think it works very well in t
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one cannot undo what one does.
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"What is done cannot be undone"'
Bob M"What somebody does they cannot undo" or "What somebody does nobody can undo".
To be honest, I don't think it works very well in the active.
I agree.
How about "one cannot undo what he's done".[:^)]
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AnonymousPlease can anyone tell me the translation of the following sentence from passive to active voice:

"What is done cannot be undone"

No one can undo what is done.

CJ
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What we do we can't undo.
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We cannot undo what we do.
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What is done cannot be done
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Change the voice " we cannot undo what we do. "

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