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I have recently been debating with someone about the true nature of passive voice. While we both understand that passive voice is when the subject of a sentence receives the action, like "he was hit by the ball", we can't agree about a specific case.Consider the sentence:"It...

Active: The officer has captured the subjects.The officer: subjecthas: auxiliary perfect tense verb in 3rd person singular since officer is a singular nouncaptured: past participle, needed for the perfect tensethe subjects: object of has capturedPassive: The subjects have been captured by the...

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 first language before we were able to use it. I believe no...

Sometimes passive sentences are described without using auxiliary verb, when don't we use aux verbs in passive sentence? Example:- Insulin: A hormone secreted by the PancreasFirst of all, a hormone secreted by the pancreas is not a sentence. It is a noun phrase, that is, an expression that...

Hello I have a question about passive. Sometimes passive sentences are described without using auxiliary verb, when don't we use aux verbs in passive sentence? Example: - Insulin: A hormone secreted by the Pancreas; why we don't say "A hormone is secreted by the Pancreas."? Thanks

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. –...

Is it correct to say: we would have BEEN done shopping? It's a passive statement. I think 'we would have done shopping' is better and the auxiliary BEEN is unacceptable. Dear Califjim, You, too, said that the passive sentence is correct. Can you plz explain?