In Passive sentences^x, Clauses^x

Hi,1) Is this a conditional? I thought a sentence with an if-clause is not conditional if the word 'if' can be replaced by 'whether'. Incidentally, to me, the sentence can be replaced as such.Yesterday she threatened to call her sister if he called her one more time.2) Is this...

The "rule" of not mixing active and passive only applies where it is possible to make all the parts active or all passive. Further note that the example on that website is of a sentence of two independent clauses joined by "and". I don't think the "rule"...

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...

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. –...

Hi, Welcome to the Forum. 1- the money he hadn't spent he was allowed to keep. It's better to say he was allowed to keep the money (that) he hadn't spent. Restrictive 2- the fact that he was only sixteen didn't really matter I don't think we normally think of this 'the fact that. . .'...

Hello Skater I'm sorry but may I ask you whether you are a native speaker? As an ESL, I myself like the possessive form better than the objective form. "The teacher dislikes the child('s) whispering to his classmate" is "The teacher dislikes that the child is whispering to his classmate" rather...

The woman is a TV reporter who is standing in the hotel elevator. There's nothing wrong with this sentence. "Detective: I'm looking for two suspects: one is a man; the other, a woman. Here are their photos. Have you seen them? Helpful Janitor: Sure. The man is an executive who is...

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, cannot be made into a passive sentence. However, some stative...

MrP Thank you for the reply. Now I got it! I must have wrongly learned the participle construction. Probably my teacher wrote the form of "as V-ing ..." on the blackboard to show the logical process involved in the change of an adverbial clause into a participle phrase. As for the phrase of 'by...

Hi Bob, Welcome to English Forums. You haven't given us complete sentences, so I'm not quite sure what you are wondering about. Let me off a completion of the sentences: (1) 'A movie called 'Star Wars' is now showing.' (2) 'A movie is called by a catchy title in order to gain a greater...