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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar
Passive Voice ?
1 font 01 b 00 Hi 02 b 02 font 00 everyone. I hope you can help me on this one. 02 br
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00 I was told that when we are forming passive voice sentences when there are two agents we should use the person as the subject. For example, John gave Tom a book ------> Tom was given a book by John. 02 br
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00 So, using the sentence " 01 b 00 John gave MTV an interview." 02 b 00 is it right to say 01 b 00 : 02 b 01 blockquote
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00 Can you answer this question, please? 02 br
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00 That'll be very helpful. 02 br
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00 Thanks 02 br
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00 Helena C., Portugal =) 0-
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00 I was told that when we are forming passive voice sentences when there are two agents we should use the person as the subject. For example, John gave Tom a book ------> Tom was given a book by John. 02 br
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00 So, using the sentence " 01 b 00 John gave MTV an interview." 02 b 00 is it right to say 01 b 00 : 02 b 01 blockquote
01 blockquote10 I'm really confused with this because (using the first example again) i was told that it would be wrong to say "A book was given to Tom by John. 02 br12 br22 blockquote
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20 a) An interview was given by John to MTV 22 br
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20 b) MTV was given an interview by Jonh 22 br
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20 c) or both? 22 br
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00 Can you answer this question, please? 02 br
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00 That'll be very helpful. 02 br
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00 Thanks 02 br
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00 Helena C., Portugal =) 0-
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0 Hi, 02 br 02 br 01 font 00 I was told that when we are forming passive voice sentences when there are two agents we should use the person as the subject. For example, John gave Tom a book ------> Tom was given a book by John. 02 font 00 There are not two 00 agents here.
- 0 Hi, 02 br 02 br 01 font 00 I was told that when we are forming passive voice sentences when there are two agents we should use the person as the subject.
- For example, John gave Tom a book ------> Tom was given a book by John.
- 02 font 00 There are not two 00 agents here.
- The agent is the person performing the action, so only John is the agent.
- 22 font 20 BOth are correct.
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0 Hi, 02 br
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01 font 00 I was told that when we are forming passive voice sentences when there are two agents we should use the person as the subject. For example, John gave Tom a book ------> Tom was given a book by John. 02 font 00 There are not two 00 agents here. The agent is the person performing the action, so only John is the a
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01 font 00 I was told that when we are forming passive voice sentences when there are two agents we should use the person as the subject. For example, John gave Tom a book ------> Tom was given a book by John. 02 font 00 There are not two 00 agents here. The agent is the person performing the action, so only John is the a
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