My question may be a little strange...but I appreciate any help I can get. Given a passive sentence: "The subjects have been captured by the officer"... ...and applying transformational rules to the underlying structure... Underlying Structure:

Hi everyone, I read some articles about this, not long ago. Clive wrote: Is grammar essential for learning a language? The answer is NO, NO, NO. Bird of Paradise, the book you read is right. We didn't learn the grammar of our

Bokeh wrote: Yoong Liat wrote: Jackson6612 wrote: Are eaten and beaten being used as adjective in the following sentences? 1: Sweets have been eaten by me. (eat, ate, eaten). The word 'eaten' is used as a verb. 2: He has not

Francesca wrote: Hi! I can't see any problem in your sentence; as far as I know the verb 'to tell' has to be used, instead of 'to say', when we want to mention the 'hearer' (the person spoken to), in direct or reported speeches

Hi! I can't see any problem in your sentence; as far as I know the verb 'to tell' has to be used, instead of 'to say', when we want to mention the 'hearer' (the person spoken to), in direct or reported speeches indifferently; in this case the

Hi, this is another thread to take advantage of. I get the feeling that in passive sentences the present perfect is used even if in active sentences the past simple is the common choice (at least in AmE). Did you hear the latest news? Someone

1 : They are worth it. I m not sure of this sentence. They worth it seems correct to me. 2 We are proud of ourselves.Sentences like I am proud of, I am afraid of , I am scared of aren't passive sentences.Here proud, adraid and scared are

hello, I have a couple of questions with reference to active and passive sentences. A simple example A.: He drove the car. P.: The car was driven by him. So far all right. An another example A.: A earthquake destroyed the hotel. P.: The Hotel was

Hi Archi, you are asking about very general subjects. I think it would be difficult to explain everything about active and passive sentences in a single post... Maybe someone else will post something useful for you, anyway you could try to post

Hi, IS THE SENTENCE, "NO PROVISION MADE FOR HER (THAT MUST BE SEEN TO)." AN EXAMPLE OF PASSIVE VOICE No. It's just an example of an incorrect sentence. Do you perhaps mean 'No provision was made for her'? This is a passive sentence. I