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Extravaganza Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Passive Voice

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00First of all, I'd like to thank you for this brilliant forum! It's my first message. 02br
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00I'm from Antalya, Turkey. (The country between Europe and Asia) 02br
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00I have a problem with folowing sentence: 02br
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00"What kind of a car is Terry driving?" 02br
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00Now, I want to learn how to change it into the passive. 02br
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00Actually, it seems very easy but I'm confused. 05002br
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00I can guess two answers but I don't know which one is true. 02br
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00"What kind of a car is Terry being driven?" 02br
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00"What kind of a car is being driven by Terry?" 02br
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00Which one is true and why the other one is not? 02br
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00Thank you! 010id6
  

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0 Hello, Extravaganza, welcome to the Forums! "12blockquote 12br 00is not correct 02br 00The subject of the active voice becomes agent cplt in the passive voice, and is introduced by "by": AV "Terry"> PV "by Terry" (compl) 02br 00Then the object compl of the active voice becomes subject in the passive voice: 02br 00"what kind of a car" = S in the passive voice 02br 00So, in the passive voice we have: 02br 00what kind of a car / is being driven / by Terry? 0-

— Pieanne

  • 0 Hello, Extravaganza, welcome to the Forums!
  • "12blockquote 12br 00is not correct 02br 00The subject of the active voice becomes agent cplt in the passive voice, and is introduced by "by": AV "Terry"> PV "by Terry" (compl) 02br 00Then the object compl of the active voice becomes subject in the passive voice: 02br 00"what kind of a car" = S in the passive voice 02br 00So, in the passive voice we have: 02br 00what kind of a car / is being driven / by Terry?
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0 Hello, Extravaganza, welcome to the Forums! 02br
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00"What kind of a car is being driven by Terry?"12blockquote
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00"What kind of a car is Terry being driven?"12blockquote
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00The subject of the active vo
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0 That's what I thought. Thank you very very much! 02br
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00However, my teacher insisted on "What kind of a car is Terry being driven?" and I was confusued. 02br
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00Heheh..05000 What am I supposed to say? Nobody is perfect.02br
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00And I'd be greateful if you could answer to my this last question.05102br
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0 Do you have to transpose it into the passive voice? I mean for school or whatever? 0-
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0 Yes, these sentences are from work sheet. It's my homework and I'm a little bit confused about it. 0-
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00I never eat hamburgers and drink cola when I'm on a diet."12blockquote
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00Here we go: 02br
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00AV. Subject > agent in PV: "I" > "by me" 02br
00AV. object > S in PV: "hamburgers" and "coca cola" 02br
00AV "eat" > "are eaten" (S = hamburgers)/ AV "drink" >
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0pieanne, I think you're just like a native, anyway. 05002br
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00Thanks for your answers.05102br
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00What do others think about that? 010id211id1
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0 The best I can come up with is "hamburgers and cola are never (consumed) eaten (when one is) on a diet... 02br
00Thank you for the compliment, Extravaganza! It means a lot to me 0-
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0 Does any native speaker have an idea? 0-
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0 I'm not a native, but I just wanted to say that there was an unnecessary article in "What kind of a car ..." . It should be "What kind of car ..." 0-
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0 Hello Extravaganza 02br
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00I'm not a native speaker but a mere learner from Japan. Could you allow me to put my two cents? 02br
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00When we English learners for the first time learn passive constructions, we tend to think every active voice sentence could be changed into passive voice by raising the object to the subject's position. But it is a w
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