#1 - The party took place last night and you weren't there. You wanted to know if Jane was invited to the party. So you asked " was she invited to the party?". #2 - The party is next week and you wonder ifJ ane is among the guests invited. So

I'm from lithuania and we are now learning this subject it's pretty hard , so I need help with one exercise: Make a passive sentence from the words in brackerts. 1.A.Have they caught the thieves yet? B. Yes .(two men / arrest / yesterday)

Hi Ohn What you seem to have overlooked here is that the main verb in your short little sentence is ask . " I'm being asked " = the present continuous of the verb ask in the passive voice . " I'm being asked " = " Someone is asking me. " " Someone

Lin1978 wrote: Thank you, Master Yankee. Your answer is quite clear. But I still have one small question. Last time my teacher told me that, "if I have two different subjects in a main clause and in a conditional, and I want to use the participle

Hi Goodman I understood that you added 'by' in order to indicate a passive. However, your second sentence would be passive even without the word 'by'. In your second sentence, the word 'by' could be followed either by the agent who does the

Hi Amy, The "by" at the end was put there by design because if I use a passives structure to "measure" something, it needs to be clear as to "by" what methodology or ways that it was guaged/ measured/ or judged by. Thanks for the reply and

Hi Jim I saw the main problem in the fact that we always use the word 'to' with the verb 'explain' when we want to mention the person on the receiving end of an explanation.. In other words, you can say "He explained the problem to me" but you can

Hi Anon No, the word 'to' is not optional. However, even with the word 'to', the sentence is extremely awkward. It's not a natural-sounding passive sentence. This version of the passive would be much better: Why he had done such terrible things

I didn't use any parentheses in my discussion of how to form the passive because I wanted to show how to do it using all the elements of the active structure in the passive structure. Nevertheless, a sentence does not cease to be passive just

How to form the passive sentence that corresponds to a given active sentence. Active: The dog bit the man. 1. Divide into subject, verb, and object. The dog || bit || the man. 2. Exchange subject and object. The man