Anonymous  +  958053 Sat, 31 Oct 09 01:19 PM How to change senteces such as: "Open the door" into a passive form?? Anonymous

	Yankee  +  958059 Sat, 31 Oct 09 01:33 PM Anonymous “"Open the door"” That is an imperative sentence. We don't usually change imperative sentences to the passive form. In your imperative sentence, it is clear that the speaker is telling "you" to open the door -- even though the word "you" is not used in the sentence. Trying to use a passive form would remove the clear idea of "you" -- which is the whole point of using an imperative sentence in the first place. You could say something such as this: - The door must be opened. OR - The door is to be opened immediately. However, the idea that "you" (rather than someone else) are the one who should open the door is lost in those passive sentences. So, neither one is really a good transformation of the original imperative sentence. Yankee Joined on Sat, Apr 15 2006 Connecticut, USA Veteran Member 6,499 Amy "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain