Timeline for The usage of the structure "be planned to"
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| Nov 13, 2022 at 6:20 | comment | added | James K | No, its fine, but I'd still prefer "We plan to hold" or simply "The meeting is planned for tomorrow" (or just "The meeting is tomorrow") | |
| Nov 13, 2022 at 6:04 | comment | added | alireza | Is the sentence "the meeting is planned to be held tomorrow" poor too like the sentence #1 in my question? It seems very natural to me. | |
| Nov 13, 2022 at 5:56 | comment | added | James K | If you make it active, dont change tence. so "The meeting was planned by me" becomes "I planned the meeting". When you have these double passives, the question of what is the active form is ambiguous, since there are two clauses that may need to be restructured. So the active form should be "We plan to remove the factories". | |
| Nov 13, 2022 at 5:50 | comment | added | alireza | If this is the active voice, I think the problem that makes sentence #1 poor is the nature of "factory" which is not plannable. But "the meeting is planned to be held tomorrow" I think is probably fine because a meeting is plannable (do you also think that this sentence is fine too?). Again here the active voice is "I (or someone) planned the meeting to be held tomorrow" which sounds fine to me. Do you agree? | |
| Nov 13, 2022 at 5:49 | comment | added | alireza | A question that arose for me is that what is the exact active voice of the sentence #1 in my question? Is it something like: "We (or someone in general) planned the factory to be removed"? I know it can be rewritten in many ways but I seek for the exact one (regardless of who the subject is). | |
| Nov 13, 2022 at 5:11 | vote | accept | alireza | ||
| Nov 12, 2022 at 21:59 | history | answered | James K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |