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Nina_Nia Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

The passive

Hello,

Could you correct my sentence, please? I had to put this sentence in passive; 'She took a long time to write the composition, but at last she wrote it.'

This is how I put it in passive. The composition took a long time to have been written.

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it correct i am agree with you "the composition took a long time to have been written

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it correct i am agree with you "the composition took a long time to have been written
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You have conjugated an infinitive instead of the main verb in the first clause, which is "took". A long time was taken to write the composition, but at last it was written. The passive employs a form of "to be", usually.
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There are three verbs in the original sentence; two of them ("take" and the 2nd "write") are used transitively, so those are the ones that you need to passivise. Here are two suggestions:

"A long time was taken writing the composition, but at last it was written".
"A long time was taken writing the composition, but at last she got it
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I'm going to disagree with that last. It should be "it got written" (which is better than "was", really).
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