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Teo Posted 19 years ago
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passive voice, Perfect progressive tense-forms

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00Is the second sentence correctly rephrased as a sentence in the Passive Voice derived from the first sentence? 0-
  

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0 We'd be more inclined to say "My car has been 01b 00getting02b 00 fixed for the last week". Often, in the UK anyway, when said in this way, it would mean that work on fixing the car hasn't actually begun yet because you haven't got round to it yet. 0-

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  • 0 We'd be more inclined to say "My car has been 01b 00getting02b 00 fixed for the last week".
  • Often, in the UK anyway, when said in this way, it would mean that work on fixing the car hasn't actually begun yet because you haven't got round to it yet.
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0 We'd be more inclined to say "My car has been 01b00getting02b00 fixed for the last week". Often, in the UK anyway, when said in this way, it would mean that work on fixing the car hasn't actually begun yet because you haven't got round to it yet. 0-
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Perfect progressive tense forms for passive voice are not only fully legitimate, but often irreplaceable by the active voice, since the passive voice is used exactly when we don't know who the doer of the action is or don't want to reveal him.
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