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PAST PASSIVE VOICE - Urgent Question That Confuses Me
The only reason there's no (significant) difference in meaning is because a window can't break itself. If we say "the window broke," we understand that someone broke it. It's possible to ...
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PAST PASSIVE VOICE - Urgent Question That Confuses Me
In the past passive voice, what is the difference in meaning between the following:
1.The window broke last night.
2.The window was broken last night.
Please note that in your example
Sentence 1 is ...
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PAST PASSIVE VOICE - Urgent Question That Confuses Me
"The window broke last night."
This sentence is in the active voice, meaning it describes an event that happened without specifying who or what caused it. The focus here is simply on the ...
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past perfect passive voice
I had my head bitten off by an ex-boss once.
This is a passive causative construction:
The passive causative form can be constructed with “have” or “get,” followed by the object (the thing or person ...
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"It is recommended for us to have eaten…” Is this grammatical?
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CGEL), in the context of verbs that take non-finite clausal complements, lists "recommend" as a verb that does not allow the complementiser &...
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"It is recommended for us to have eaten…” Is this grammatical?
The sentence you wrote, "It is recommended for us to have eaten something before swimming" is grammatically correct.
The structure you used correctly expresses a suggestion or advice using a ...
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"It is recommended for us to have eaten…” Is this grammatical?
One finds in Alien Abduction for Professionals: Steamy Reverse Harem by Skye MacKinnon ( Peryton Press, 2021):
We'd done some weightlifting before we abducted Trish —the course had recommended for us ...
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"It is recommended for us to have eaten…” Is this grammatical?
It is recommended for us to have eaten something before swimming.
The sentence above was marked wrong without an explanation. It is likely that their teacher was expecting a sentence similar to this:
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"award" passive voice. Put the word in brackets into the correct passive form
There are two ways of completing the sentence. The correct sentence structure using the passive voice would be:
1. "After having been awarded a medal for bravery, he became a local hero".
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Making a Passive Sentence from "Someone break the window."
The window was broken (by X)
I believe this would be the passive form of the sentence. Fluent English speakers would definitely understand it, but I don't think that most of us would consider this to ...
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Making a Passive Sentence from "Someone break the window."
In English, Active and Passive voice are mostly about which order words are in. Since English allows a lot of flexibility in word order, there are many different ways to say or write the same thing ...
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Making a Passive Sentence from "Someone break the window."
OP's query:
Change to passive voice
"They could have broken the window".
In active voice the subject "they" performs the action of breaking the window.
In the passive voice, the ...
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Differentiating between Passive verb and link verb plus adjective
I did some research on this and this is my update:
Scenario 1
marry = get-marry = enter into a marriage or become husband and wife.
The above sentence DOES NOT mean "they were married," ...
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