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I obviously agree with Forbes: it depends on your first language. I have never had any problems with passive sentences, subjects and objects, the difference between countable and uncountable, etc. because those are all features I have in Italian too. It is not difficult at all for me to use...

I'm not an expert on grammar or linguistics, but here are my thoughts as an ordinary native user of English. I hope I got all the grammatical terminology correct! I think that all verbs -- transitive or intransitive -- are able to form present perfect sentences: "He has...

Hi Ganesh77, <<>> The sentence "Last year, turnover was increased by 20%" is called a 'common mistake' in my course book. I just need to throw in my 2 cents…. As already explained “turnover” (as in employee turnover) is a noun. If a company for some unknown...

A verb standing by itself is neither transitive nor intransitive. You have to see how it's used in a sentence to determine whether it's transitive or not. If it's transitive it will have an object; that is, there will be a noun following the verb which connects to and completes the meaning...

Correct me if I am wrong, You would say, The car is smashed. => passive , The smashed car is... You won't say. The people are met by me. => it's passive but doesn't make sense, therefore the compound noun also illogical, The met people So, I think the question is, as long...

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 sentence. It is a noun phrase, that is, an...

According to my OALD, you are correct: "adjective finished (with sb/sth) no longer doing sth or dealing with sb/sth: I won’t be finished for another hour . I’m not finished with you yet . " It seems that it's not a passive sentence...

The agent is what we call the subject in an active voice sentence-- the doer of the verb action: 'My bicycle was stolen by a Mesopotamian.'-- in this passive sentence, the Mesopotamian is the agent, and in its active form it would read: 'A Mesopotamian stole my bike'. The method or...

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"...

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...