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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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Why this should be a passive sentence?
Hello... I found this sentence in wikipedia website and it seems it is passive but why it shouldn't be written as
an active sentence?
A http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-person_narrative told by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Edgecombe, the novel switches between Paul as an old man in the Georgia Pines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursing_home sharing his story with fellow resident Elaine Connelly in 1996, and his time in 1932 as the block supervisor of the Cold Mountain Penitentiary death row, nicknamed "The Green Mile" for the color of the floor's linoleum.
Original article link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Green_Mile%28novel%29
Thanks
an active sentence?
A http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-person_narrative told by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Edgecombe, the novel switches between Paul as an old man in the Georgia Pines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursing_home sharing his story with fellow resident Elaine Connelly in 1996, and his time in 1932 as the block supervisor of the Cold Mountain Penitentiary death row, nicknamed "The Green Mile" for the color of the floor's linoleum.
Original article link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The Green_Mile%28novel%29
Thanks
Top answer
Because the point and topic is the novel, not the author. Passive voice subordinates the agent. In this particular sentence, moreover, the nonfinite clause must have the same (implied) subject as the main clause, whose subject is 'novel'.
- Because the point and topic is the novel, not the author.
- Passive voice subordinates the agent.
- In this particular sentence, moreover, the nonfinite clause must have the same (implied) subject as the main clause, whose subject is 'novel'.
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Because the point and topic is the novel, not the author. Passive voice subordinates the agent. In this particular sentence, moreover, the nonfinite clause must have the same (implied) subject as the main clause, whose subject is 'novel'.
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