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Nirm2007  +  361617 Mon, 07 May 07 07:23 PM
    What will be the passive voice of this sentence : Let me try first.
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Goodman  +  361624 Mon, 07 May 07 07:31 PM

 Nirm2007 wrote:
    What will be the passive voice of this sentence : Let me try first.

Nirm,

We need an object in a sentence for any passive or active sentence. Where is yours?

Sub      Verb          obj

  I       opened the door. > The door was opened by me.

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Yankee  +  361635 Mon, 07 May 07 07:45 PM
Hi Nirm

Your sentence is a command and cannot really be transformed into a passive without some changes.  One possible way of making a passive sentence with a similar meaning is this:

I should/must be allowed to try first.




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Anonymous, 320 days ago
let it be tried by me first
Yankee  +  634903 Thu, 08 Jan 09 02:34 PM
That successfully makes the word "try" passive, Anon. 
However, I'd say it's very unlikely that a native-speaker of English would ever actually use that sentence. 
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