Guest  +  22240 Thu, 12 Feb 04 12:50 PM How do i distinguish , if the given sentence is active or passive? In general if a sentence is written, what would be the possibilty of active and passive. Is all the sentence , whatever it may be ,should fall either in active or passive? If so why? Else is there any other form is available.. Please help me out .May be it sounds foolish question. I hope our forum people are so generous to this kind of questions. Thanx in advance Guest

	rommie  +  22246 Thu, 12 Feb 04 01:34 PM Verbs (not sentences) may be either active or passive. They cannot be neither, and they cannot be both simultaneously. Passive voice is pretty easy to spot, because the verb will be preceded by the word "been". Rommie rommie Joined on Mon, Jan 26 2004 Earth orbit Regular Member 606 Verbs

	whl626  +  22324 Fri, 13 Feb 04 02:36 AM to spot if a sentence is active or passive. You need to look for the ' past participle ' form of a verb. And try to change the sentence into an active if you think it is a passive, if you could do that then the sentence is a passive. eg. He was critically reprimanded by his boss on his failure to secure a big transaction. the past participle here is ' reprimanded ' , the subject is ' he ' and the object is ' his boss '. So do the reverse eg. The boss reprimanded him on his failure to secure a big transaction. Hah, it works like a charm. whl626 Joined on Sun, Aug 24 2003 Regular Member 882 Learn English every day Verbs

	rommie  +  22347 Fri, 13 Feb 04 10:57 AM Okay, I admit it. I'm embarrassed. My answer was incomplete. Listen to WHL. They know what they're talking about. Rommie rommie