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

Active: The officer has captured the subjects. The officer : subject has : auxiliary perfect tense verb in 3rd person singular since officer is a singular noun captured : past participle, needed for the perfect tense the subjects : object of has

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

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 First of all, a hormone secreted by the pancreas is not a

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

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)

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

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