Timeline for when we are forming passive voice of sentence, do we form passive of both clauses of a sentence?
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| Dec 16, 2017 at 8:35 | comment | added | Shoe | I hope you are also learning from your teacher the contexts in which the passive is the right choice. The context in your question is not one of them | |
| Dec 16, 2017 at 8:02 | answer | added | James K | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 16, 2017 at 7:45 | comment | added | Andrew | So is it right? Is it wrong? The correct answer is, it is whatever your teacher says it is, because that's who decides your grade. :( | |
| Dec 16, 2017 at 7:45 | comment | added | Andrew | As with many English exams it's more about knowing what the teacher expects than what is actually grammatical. In this case it's grammatical but illogical to mix the tenses because it changes the meaning. "If you can't reach the station on time, the tickets can't be bought." is confusing, because who is buying the tickets? You've already identified yourself as the subject, so why use the passive unless you mean that someone else is going to buy them? | |
| Dec 16, 2017 at 7:41 | comment | added | kumar | Yes,we do mix up. But this question was asked is my exam ,and it gave me hard time selecting one. Which would be better? | |
| Dec 16, 2017 at 7:37 | comment | added | Andrew | No, you will often see sentences with various mixed tenses. In your own native language, are you required to form sentences using only passive or active voice, or can you mix it up? | |
| Dec 16, 2017 at 7:24 | history | asked | kumar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |