PASSIVE voice problems

Once upon a 12/17/03 2:32 AM, in the land of
[nq:1]Hello, Can some one help me how to change the active/passive voice of these two sentences. I have tried my way but my answers, I think are grammatically incorrect. Here are the sentences. 1) They laughed at him.[/nq]
He was laughed at (by them).
[nq:1]2) He arrived at the airport.[/nq]
"Arrive" is intransitive, so can't be made pas

Well, I can make anything passive. (The airport was arrived at by him.) However, it is a horror of a sentence.
"Laugh", by the way, is not used transitively in this sentence, is it?

Though stretching it a little gives: 'The airport witnessed his arrival'

More prosaically: 'The airport was the scene of his arrival' (Though that isn't strictly passive)
Einstein would approve 'The airport arrived at him'

I'm toying with 'The airport was arrived at'. Actually, 'The airport was finally arrived at' is the kind of thing you might find in an airport novel

[nq:1]"Laugh", by the way, is not used transitively in this sentence, is it?[/nq]
No, in thatsentence it's not used at all, just mentioned

[nq:1]Hello, Can some one help me how to change the active/passive voice of these two sentences. I have tried my way but my answers, I think are grammatically incorrect. Here are the sentences. 1) They laughed at him.[/nq]
He was laughed at (by them).
[nq:1]2) He arrived at the airport.[/nq]
The airport was arrived at (by him).
Does the position of the 'at's bother you? It shouldn'

[nq:1]Though stretching it a little gives: 'The airport witnessed hisarrival'[/nq]
That's more like it.
[nq:1]Einstein would approve 'The airport arrived at him'.[/nq]
As far as I remember I was discussing on grammatical errors, and I dont think Einstein can do anything about it unless he derives a certain law for the airport.
[nq:1]I'm toying with 'The airport was arrived at'. Act

[nq:2]Though stretching it a little gives: 'The airport witnessed his arrival'[/nq]
[nq:1]That's more like it.[/nq]
That isn't grammatically passive, so it still doesn't give a satisfactory (or "right") answer to the question as originally given.

johnF
"I omit as unnecessarily painful and distressing the ejaculations and prayers which, in the months of December and January, ap

To do with Einstein being associated with relativity. It all depends on your point of view. There's an old joke that Einstein was in a railway carriage and asked a fellow passenger 'Excuse me, what time does Oxford arrive at this train?'

John Dean
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Once upon a 12/17/03 7:43 AM, in the land of
[nq:2]He was laughed at (by them). "Arrive" is intransitive, so can't be made passive.[/nq]
[nq:1]Well, I can make anything passive. (The airport was arrived at by him.) However, it is a horror of a sentence.[/nq]
I agree (well, I agree that it's ungrammatical, anyway). But it's syntactically the same as "he was laughed at by them". Why is t

[nq:1]To do with Einstein being associated with relativity. It all dependson your point of view.[/nq]
Of course it is the refrence point that makes the whole scenario.
[nq:1]There's an old joke that Einstein was in a railway carriage and asked a fellow passenger 'Excuse me, what time does Oxford arriveat this train?'[/nq]
Oh , but why did not you told me that before.

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