Hi Ganesh77, <<>> The sentence "Last year, turnover was increased by 20%" is called a 'common mistake' in my course book. I just need to throw in my 2 cents…. As already explained “turnover” (as in employee

Many ESL grammar books require learners to convert active sentences to passive ones. If the book was well-written, the active sentences will be appropriate for conversion to passive ones. Unfortunately, there are plenty of grammar books and

Hi, please help me with these transformation exercise: 1/ People saw him steal your car => should it be "he was seen to steal your car" or: he was seen stealing your car 2/ He won't let you do that silly thing again => should

In response to the questions posed in the first post of this thread, "the officer" is NOT the subject of the sentence regardless of whether the sentence is active or passive. "The officer" is undoubtedly the doer of the action

This material has been tested by our engineers - this would be Active because the subject is doing? it will be returned to you today - Passive since it stands for material - so there is no doer? Hi Corinna 1. This material has been tested by our

Hi, Here is my 2 cents on the matter. Let us look at a simple example, more simple than yours perhaps: A dog kicked a ball. A ball was kicked -- Stop. Now, should I include the 'by' phrase? I think you should to make it the

Could the following sentences be used in a formal letter? Would the two of them be right? If so, when would you use number 1 and when number 2? 1. I look forward to meeting you. 2. I am looking forward to meeting you. Use the first one though. No

Hi Kooyeen I really don't have any statistics on which tense would be more frequently used in informal AmE in a passive sentence like yours. But I do think that we're more likely to the present perfect in "Damn! My bike's been stolen!" than to use

HI again Amy, I'm so sorry... I still don't understand and I have the exact same problem, LOL. I think we are not understanding each other well, so I'll try to be clearer now. Yankee wrote: I agreed with you that, in AmE, using the present

Hi Kooyeeen I agreed with you that, in AmE, using the present perfect would be more "natural" in that sort of passive sentence than it would be in the active version of the same sentence. However, I also wanted to emphasize the fact that you added