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I obviously agree with Forbes: it depends on your first language. I have never had any problems with passive sentences, subjects and objects, the difference between countable and uncountable, etc. because those are all features I have in Italian too. It is not difficult at all for me to use...

.John likes pizza.Pizza is liked by John.There is no object in the second sentence. The subject of the passive sentence (pizza) is the object of its active equivalent. By John is an adverb. John is the agent in both sentences.Of course, some passive sentences can have objects:John gave Mary a...

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 comment from CJ and you. I understand completely your...

The woman is a TV reporter who is standing in the hotel elevator. There's nothing wrong with this sentence. "Detective: I'm looking for two suspects: one is a man; the other, a woman. Here are their photos. Have you seen them? Helpful Janitor: Sure. The man is an executive who is...

Hi Englishpros, * The woman is a TV reporter who is standing in the hotel elevator. 1. Someone suggests the sentence above should be wrong. Why? _________________________________________________________ A stative verb, generally, cannot be made into a passive sentence. However, some stative...

I don't mind so much about whether the "down" in "down the road" is an adverb or a preposition because usually we don't use a passive sentence with "the road" as the subject even if the "down" is an adverb. What I am interested in is whether the frequencies for the uses of "walk down X" and "walk...