Passive Voice

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Julie Rhiles I don't want someone to be spilled all over with my drink

Why did you add 'all over'? The (impossible) passive is:

To spill my drink on someone is not wanted by me.

We of course would never use such a ridiculous sentence. Your teache

Julie Rhiles'I don't want someone to be spilled all over with my drink'

This doesn't work. If you want "someone" (rather than "drink") to be the focus, you could say "I don't want someone to get my drink spilled on them".

Thank you. This helps a lot

No teacers. I'm writing an article and I believe my sentence requires a passive construction to sound better. The original sentence is 'When on a walk, it lets you freely sip your coffee or smoothie while holding hands with someone ...' So, I can't make up a correct ending.

Would you help me apply this to such sentence, 'When on a walk, it lets you freely sip your coffee or smoothie while holding hands with someone you don't want to...'

The original sentence is fine.

When on a walk, it lets you freely sip your coffee or smoothie while holding hands with someone.

When on a walk, it lets you sip your coffee or smoothie while holding hands with someone, even if you don't want to be holding hands with them.

If you want the idea of "free hands," you can write:
When on a walk, it frees your han

You must have misunderstood me. I'm writing about ***** packs and trying to show their benefits. So, the idea of the sentence is that with this bag you can have both hands free, for example, the right one for a drink and the left one for holding somebody's hand; besides, no bulky bag is hanging at your side preventing you from moving freely so you're not risking to spill your drink by accident. So

Can I say, '...holding hands with someone whom you don’t want to accidentally spill your drink on' ?

Julie RhilesCan I say, '...holding hands with someone whom you don’t want to accidentally spill your drink on' ?

Yes.

"whom" is formal. In everyday English, "who" is often used instead. You could consider doing that.

Julie RhilesI'm writing about ***** packs

Just in case it matters for your purposes, you shou

I'm writing for a fashion blog, not for UK only, so possible regional connotations don't matter. But thank you anyway!