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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

The passive voice

I would kindly ask for anyone to tell me what sort of passive voice, or other grammatical form is in this sentence (the part in capital letters): 'When hiking, wear boots if you want TO AVOID BEING BITTEN BY a snake'
  

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Anonymous TO AVOID BEING BITTEN It's an infinitive phrase (TO AVOID). avoid is a catenative verb that takes an -ing form, so the next verb has -ing (BEING). It has a past participle (BITTEN) after a form of be , so the complement of avoid is passive.

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous TO AVOID BEING BITTEN It's an infinitive phrase (TO AVOID).
  • avoid is a catenative verb that takes an -ing form, so the next verb has -ing (BEING).
  • It has a past participle (BITTEN) after a form of be , so the complement of avoid is passive.
  • to avoid seeing something ~ avoid with an active voice complement to avoid being seen ~ avoid with a passive voice complement CJ
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AnonymousTO AVOID BEING BITTEN
It's an infinitive phrase (TO AVOID).
avoid is a catenative verb that takes an -ing form, so the next verb has -ing (BEING).
It has a past participle (BITTEN) after a form of be, so the complement of avoid is passive.

to avoid seeing something ~ avoid with an active voice
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Avoid requires a gerund (the ing-form), the passive requires some form of to be, and the ing-form of to be is being. Bitten is a past participle, which is also needed in the passive voice. Some examples:

Active:
Avoid making mistakes-
He avoided seeing me.

Passive:
He avoided being seen.

CB

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CalifJimto avoid being seen ~ avoid with a passive voice complement
Sorry if this seems like a stupid question, but is there a "special name" for this then?
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Anonymousis there a "special name" for this then?
No. Just the special terms I used in explaining the structure.

infinitive
catenative verb
complement
-ing form
passive voice

CJ
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