http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aFootball+tag%3aRelative+pronouns+tag%3aExclamation+marksSearch results for 'tag:Football tag:Relative pronouns tag:Exclamation marks' matching tags 'Football', 'Relative pronouns', and 'Exclamation marks'en-USCSMOD (Build: 3273.32735)http://www.englishforums.com/English/PassiveVoice/2/gprpc/Post.htm#575078Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:51:51 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:575078cool breeze quote user Huevos quote user Goodman football is a popular sport played almost in all Asain and European countries There is no direct agent here but it s still a passive structure quote That sentence is not in the passive voice quote Football is a popular sport which that is played in almost all Asian and European countries The sentence consists of a main clause and a relative clause which has been reduced by omitting the relative pronoun and the passive auxiliary is I call such structures clause equivalents but terminology is unimportant here The relative clause or its equivalent is in the passive voice A sentence ends with a full stop period an exclamation mark or a question mark A clause need not have any punctuation after it which is the case after the main clause in this sentence CB