Timeline for Does passive need direct object or indirect object of a verb [duplicate]
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 9:11 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 17, 2016 at 17:15 | history | edited | Jasper | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 2, 2014 at 19:09 | comment | added | CoolHandLouis | Prefacing with a more generic category doesn't change the nature of the question. I could ask "What is 1+1?" and someone might say, "Duplicate of HOW TO ADD". Then I edit as: "This is not about addition, it's about the nature of arithmetic operators. What is 1+1?" It's still the same question. | |
| Jun 2, 2014 at 18:54 | history | edited | Amisha J | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 2, 2014 at 18:47 | comment | added | CoolHandLouis | "This happened to me when I was about 18 years old." is the grammatically correct form. Note: Your sentence does not work well with the word 'this' referring to something you say after the sentence. Good: "I won the lottery. This happened a year ago." Bad: "This happened a year ago. I won the lottery." If this confuses you, you could ask it as a separate question. | |
| Jun 2, 2014 at 18:40 | history | closed | StoneyB on hiatus grammar Users with the grammar badge or a synonym can single-handedly close grammar questions as duplicates and reopen them as needed. | Duplicate of Is "What happened to him" correct? | |
| Jun 2, 2014 at 18:38 | history | edited | Amisha J | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 2, 2014 at 18:30 | comment | added | user1513 | The first two sentences seem ungrammatical to me. The verb happen doesn't take a direct object and therefore cannot be in the passive voice. | |
| Jun 2, 2014 at 18:21 | history | asked | Amisha J | CC BY-SA 3.0 |