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

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

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

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

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

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,

4) . (a)"Larger than normal" is an adjectival phrase:"larger-than-normal". (b)"Pay increase" is a noun-noun phrase where "pay" works as an adjective. (c)"Award" is a ditransitive verb : to award IO DO. But like other ditransitive verbs the

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

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