milky  +  353924 Sun, 22 Apr 07 06:33 AM Which voice are these sentences in?   These are apples are ready to eat. There are dishes to do. milky Joined on Thu, Jan 15 2004 Senior Member 3,149 Hume said that if we had perfect or complete descriptive knowledge of reality, we could not, by reasoning, derive a single valid "ought".

	Cool Breeze  +  354178 Sun, 22 Apr 07 05:42 PM The first sentence is badly ungrammatical and consequently it is in no voice. The second sentence is grammatically in the active voice as both the finite verb and the infinitive are in the active. However, since dishes can't do anything, somebody will obviously do them. This is a peculiarity of English grammar and may be conducive to ambiguity in some situations. Fortunately speakers of English want to understand even ambiguous phrases correctly and few real problems arise. CB Cool Breeze Joined on Fri, Apr 7 2006 Senior Member 3,970 "I hope you'll all live to be 150 years old - and the last voice you hear is mine!" Frank Sinatra on stage in Oslo, Norway, 28 September 1991 Grammar, Verbs, English Grammar