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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Problem with passive voice

Hi,

I have a problem converting a sentence to passive voice.

For example:
sentence a) She will eat a cake.
I understand when this is turned to passive voice it is "A cake will be eaten by her"

But, take sentense b) She will be eating a cake.

Please tell me what it is like when this sentence is turned to passive voice.

Thanks in advance!
- Nilakshi
  

Top answer

- Nilakshi HI Nilakshi; Here is the pattern for the progressive passives: Present: A. She is eating a cake. B.

— AlpheccaStars

  • - Nilakshi HI Nilakshi; Here is the pattern for the progressive passives: Present: A.
  • She is eating a cake.
  • B.
  • The cake is being eaten by her.
  • Past: A.
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AnonymousHi,I have a problem converting a sentence to passive voice.For example: sentence a) She will eat a cake.I understand when this is turned to passive voice it is "A cake will be eaten by her"But, take sentense b) She will be eating a cake.Please tell me what it is like when this sentence is turned to passive voice.Thanks in advance!- Nilakshi
HI Nilaksh
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I would add that the passive versions of these sentences sound very awkward. I can't imagine anyone actually using them except in a grammar exercise.
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khoffI would add that the passive versions of these sentences sound very awkward. I can't imagine anyone actually using them except in a grammar exercise.
I can't imagine a sentence like A cake will be being eaten even in a grammar exercise. The grammar books I have read state that the passive continuous tenses are limited to the present and the past t
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As a native speaker, I never actually use the passive progressive future, even though it is grammatically feasible:


1. After supper, Joe will be washing the dishes. (common)

2. After supper, the dishes will be being washed. (not used)

3. After supper, the dishes will be washed. (used as the passive for #1)


Most sources confirm that the future passive progress

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Cool BreezeIn other words will be being eaten is incorrect.
I have never understood how some grammarians transform infrequency of use into incorrectness.

I have no doubt that the day will come for them when they will have a thought that demands the use of such a tense, and they will use it without hesitation, blasphemous though it may be!
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CalifJimthey will have a thought that demands the use of such a tense, and they will use it without hesitation, blasphemous though it may be!
Chef Bordeaux is planning to bake an enormous King Cake that will have an entry in the Guinness book of records. It will be the largest cake to be consumed simultaneously by a huge crowd. The venue is the Olympic Stadium
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AlpheccaStarsthat great King Cake will be being eaten for hours and hours
Alphecca!!! I am petrified in horror at what you've written!

And you consider yourself capable of answering questions on an English forum? Tsk, tsk, tsk. What's the world coming to?
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Forgive me, CJ, I just could not resist such a proffered tantalizing temptation to linguistic sacrilege. Perhaps the thread should be floated up into the rarified atmosphere of the linguistics forum under the subcategory of "artificially manufactured grammatical contrivances."
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AlpheccaStarsunder the subcategory of "artificially manufactured grammatical contrivances."
... also known as the subcategory of "English, and how to crook it"?
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