Type of usage
1. She was badly injured and unable to walk, likely for the rest of her life.
2. She was likely to never speak to him again, likely being almost certain.
Is 2 ungrammatical with the placement of the phrase after the comma? How does it differ from 1?
Are these examples of passive voice?
An inquest into a murder reveals nothing.
A dog walker feared for his life.
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panda blue 483 1. She was badly injured and unable to walk, likely for the rest of her life. 2.
- panda blue 483 1.
- She was badly injured and unable to walk, likely for the rest of her life.
- 2.
- She was likely to never speak to him again, likely being almost certain.
- Is 2 ungrammatical with the placement of the phrase after the comma?
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panda blue 4831. She was badly injured and unable to walk, likely for the rest of her life.
2. She was likely to never speak to him again, likely being almost certain.
Is 2 ungrammatical with the placement of the phrase after the comma? How does it differ from 1?
In (2), the part after the comma is apparently explaining the interpretation of the wor
0panda blue 483passive voice
No.
At bare minimum passive voice requires auxiliary be (am, is, are, was, were, been, being) followed by a past participle.
None of those are to be found in your sentences. (In fact, there are no auxiliary verbs at all in those two sentences — just 'reveals' and 'feared'.)
The only passive constr
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