Timeline for I know him. He is known to me
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| Mar 2, 2019 at 7:15 | history | edited | JavaLatte | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 28, 2019 at 15:33 | comment | added | user230 | The active–passive distinction is one of voice, not mood; there is a passive voice, but there is no passive mood. | |
| May 26, 2016 at 5:02 | history | edited | JavaLatte | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 25, 2016 at 13:34 | comment | added | JavaLatte | They might have been invited to the party is an example of passive voice from this web site learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/…. Like your example, you cannot say by the party, you have to say to the party... but it is still passive voice. | |
| May 25, 2016 at 13:23 | comment | added | JavaLatte | he is known is passive mood, whether there is nothing after it or it is followed by a preposition and me. Even if there is a rule about using to rather than by in this sentence, this is just additional information tacked onto the end of a sentence which is still passive mood. | |
| May 25, 2016 at 12:57 | history | edited | JavaLatte | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 25, 2016 at 12:53 | comment | added | I don't know who I am. | I have found something. You can passivize "Galileo knew the Earth to be a sphere" into "The Earth was known by Galileo to be a sphere". This "know" needs some voluntarily activities of the doer (=Galileo). On the other hand, "know" in "Everybody knows his name" doesn't need involuntary activities of the doer (=everybody), so you cannot passivize it into "His name is known by everybody". "His name is known to everybody" is OK. You can take this "known" as a kind of adjective. | |
| May 25, 2016 at 12:38 | comment | added | I don't know who I am. | He is known by me. He is known to me. These both are the different things. We are talking about "Known to". | |
| May 25, 2016 at 12:15 | comment | added | I don't know who I am. | Yes, but he says that the sentence which I wrote here, is not passive voice. He said that "He is known to me" , (Known) is adjective. As we simply form the sentences by using adjectives, such as; He is intelligent. He is diligent. It is like that. | |
| May 25, 2016 at 12:11 | history | answered | JavaLatte | CC BY-SA 3.0 |