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| Feb 21, 2017 at 12:03 | comment | added | TimR | In a normal conversation (not in a police interrogation, for example), a native speaker, when asked who opened the door, is far more likely to say "I opened the door" (with vocal emphasis on the first-person pronoun) than "the door was opened by me". Many active-to-passive exercises give learners a very distorted sense of when the passive is to be used. | |
| Feb 21, 2017 at 7:31 | vote | accept | ajesh kdy | ||
| Feb 21, 2017 at 7:16 | answer | added | Khan | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 21, 2017 at 6:55 | comment | added | Mohd Zulkanien Sarbini | Both are correct, the agent is not obligatory, you can put it if you want your listener to know who opened the door. | |
| Feb 21, 2017 at 6:50 | history | asked | ajesh kdy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |