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Tapas Mandal Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Sentences like "changes be made" etc are passive voice?

We all sympathized, but agreed it was in everybody’s interest that the changes be made. Here 'changes', 'be' & 'made' all are verbs. These kind of sentences follow which grammar rule? or does it fall under some kind of passive voice? I need more such examples.
  

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Tapas Mandal We all sympathized, but agreed it was in everybody’s interest that the changes be made. Here 'changes', 'be' & 'made' all are verbs. 'Changes' is a noun, not a verb.

— Mister Micawber

  • Tapas Mandal We all sympathized, but agreed it was in everybody’s interest that the changes be made.
  • Here 'changes', 'be' & 'made' all are verbs.
  • 'Changes' is a noun, not a verb.
  • agreed it was in everybody’s interest that the changes be made [by the committee].
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Tapas MandalWe all sympathized, but agreed it was in everybody’s interest that the changes be made. Here 'changes', 'be' & 'made' all are verbs.
'Changes' is a noun, not a verb. It is simply passive voice:

We...agreed it was in everybody’s interest that the changes be made [by the committee].
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Mister Micawber'Changes' is a noun, not a verb. It is simply passive voice:
Thank you Mister. Can you please tell me its equivalent active voice as I can't derive its active voice like in the below cases.

I do it. (present tense) -> It is done by me. (passive)
I did it. (past tense) -> It was done by me. (passive)
I have do
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Tapas Mandal. Can you please tell me its equivalent active voice
We all sympathized, but agreed it was in everybody’s interest that we/they/the government make the changes.
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Tapas MandalWe all sympathized, but agreed it was in everybody’s interest that the changes be made. Here 'changes', 'be' & 'made' all are verbs. These kind of sentences follow which grammar rule? or does it fall under some kind of passive voice? I need more such examples.
You are seeing the subjunctive mood. Read
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We all sympathized, but agreed it was in everybody’s interest that the changes be made.

The clause has the subject "changes" and the verb "be made."

The verb is in the passive subjunctive mood, present tense. Verbs after certain verbs like "demand, agree, r
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Mister Micawberwe/they/the government make the changes.
But if we assume the active voice is "The govt make the changes(Present tense)". Then isn't its passive form would be "Changes are made by the govt." like this???
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The subjunctive active/passive pairs are the following:

We agree that the gov't. make the changes(Present tense)".
We agree that changes be made by the gov't.

The simple present tense active/passive pairs are:

The gov't. makes the changes.
Changes are made by the gov't.
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Not that anything about the active/passive pairs is wrong, but it is certainly not "agree" that triggers the subjunctive; it is "in everybody's interest that" that triggers the subjunctive.
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CalifJimit is certainly not "agree" that triggers the subjunctive;
True. I left out the most important part of the sentence which was quoted correctly in the original post.
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