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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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passive voice question

0 can someone help me? Is 'Those hills would close in on you.' an example of a passive voice, presumably those hills are closing in around you, and the hills are the object of the sentence. 0-
  

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' an example of a passive voice,02font 02br 02br 00No, it's active. 02font 02br 02br 00Best wishes, Clive0-

— Clive

  • ' an example of a passive voice,02font 02br 02br 00No, it's active.
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01font00Is 'Those hills would close in on you.' an example of a passive voice,02font02br
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00No, it's active. Say 01font00'You would be closed in on by those hills'.02font02br
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0That's right Clive, but when or why would anyone ever want to say the above passive construction?02br
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00Just because it's grammatically possible, doesn't make it necessarily correct or appropriate in the real world, does it?0-
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01cite10Tam Sadek12cite10That's right Clive, but when or why would anyone ever want to say the above passive construction?12br
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10Just because it's grammatically possible, doesn't make it necessarily correct or appropriate in the real world, does it?12br
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0Yep.02br
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0Glad that's been cleared up... Philip05002br
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00I didn't really think you thought the sentence was acceptable Clive05100, but I thought it better to overtly state that it isn't a 'good' sentence in case any learners got the wrong idea!052010id111id512id16
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