. 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

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 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,

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