Passive voice error

As it stands, it looks like an active sentence to me. Can you provide the full sentence please?

Logically we would see this as a passive sentence that had not been written properly - along the lines of 'the cake had been baked...'
However, as it stands you have a subject followed by a verb: the cake had done something. Of course, that makes no sense - the sentence is written deliberately badly to make no sense to make the point.
So, it's an active sentence that makes no sense. Ha

Hi teechr,

Here is the full sentence.

You cannot use the active voice 'the cake had baked' because 'cake' is the object of the active sentence 'Someone had baked the cake' >> 'the cake had been baked.

It's come from a video from an English teacher who has had up to 10 million views on some of her videos. She makes quite a few mistakes. Pity the learn

Cup cakeIt 's come from a video from by an English teacher

Cup cakebut she isn't good at explaining herself when a student asks a question.

Do you know if a specific question was asked in this case for which she gave the above as a response?

No specific question other than the student saying this:

Can you explain please?

That's it.

Rather confusing if you ask me.

Cup cakeYou cannot use the active voice 'the cake had baked' because 'cake' is the object of the active sentence 'Someone had baked the cake' >> 'the cake had been baked.

Covert meaning:

When you are asked to transform the passive sentence "The cake had been baked" into active voice, you cannot use "The cake had baked" as your answer. The subje

Hmmm.

My dictionary includes, for bake as an intransitive verb, the meaning of undergo the process of being baked.
And we routinely say in recipes eg Let the cake bake for 20 minutes.

To me, the sentence is OK.

Thanks CJ and Clive.

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