blackmamba  +  32080 Fri, 04 Jun 04 05:53 PM Hi! I'm translating a manual on a software... I've a doubt: does the passive form need the past? e.g. "the program needs to be ran by the user" is correct? thaks a lot BM blackmamba Joined on Thu, May 20 2004 New Member 18

	puddinella  +  32087 Fri, 04 Jun 04 07:45 PM The correct verb tense in the sentence example is "to be run". This is the future tense in a passive voice, I believe, if what you are trying to convey is that at some point in the future this action must occur. To make the sentence active you would say, "The user needs to run the program." puddinella Joined on Thu, Jun 3 2004 New Member 05 Verbs, Tenses

	Pemmican  +  32088 Fri, 04 Jun 04 07:50 PM Nope this is not correct: The passive forms are built by a form of "to be" and the past participle of the full verb, so it has to be: "The program needs to be run by the user". Pemmican Joined on Thu, Aug 21 2003 Regular Member 569 Wâ mag ich mich nu vinden? wâ mac ich mich nu suochen, wâ? nu bin ich hie und bin ouch dâ und enbin doch weder dâ noch hie. wer wart ouch sus verirret ie? wer wart ie sus... Verbs