By Constructions, Passive sentences

(b) is fine. I'm not keen on (a). It's fairly common to omit second and subsequent instances of "was" in passive sentences. For example "She was bitten by a snake and admitted to hospital". However, if the first item is an adjective (as "sick" in your...

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 in both sentences, but it is the subject only in...

Anonymous wrote: Hi~ I would like to know what's the difference (in terms of the underlined parts) between sentences 1 & 2. 1. Rob was devastated by the news of her death.2. Rob was devastated. Is sentence 1 a passive construction while sentence 2 a linking verb 'be' + past...

#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 you ask "has Jane been invited?" # 1 and 2 are...

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 phrase, I have to keep both two subjects or change...

Anonymous wrote: Hi, allI'd like to ask you about using get + past participle in the sentences like that: When are we going to get paid?Pull over or you are going to get stoped in a different way. (I just made them up, so I may be wrong, but I think you get the point). It looks to me that we...

Hi Musesun"This forbidden to make money in the university" is not a correct sentence. The word "forbidden" is not a tense at all -- it is just the past participle (V3) of the verb 'forbid'. You can say "This is forbidden", but you cannot say "This forbidden".Have you learned how to make...

Mister Micawber wrote:Future Simple (I will sit)Future Continuous/Progressive (I will be sitting)Future Perfect (I will have sat")Present Simple (I sit)Past Simple (I sat)Past Continuous/Progressive (I was sitting)Past Perfect (I had sat)Past Perfect Continuous/Progressive (I had been...

This is off the internet too, Abmateen, but I could do no better:Personal Passive simply means that the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence. So every verb that needs an object (transitive verb) can form a personal passive. Example: They build houses. –...

Hello guysThank you for the replies. All of them are very helpful to me in thinking the problem. I think I had better explain the question more in detail.Actually the questioner asked at first the semantic difference between "He made her sing" and "He told her to sing". So, at first I explained...