In Passive sentences^x, Past perfect^x

It is possible and correct. This is not a true passive. interested is normally treated as a plain adjective, not as a part of a verb. The verb here is therefore be (in the past perfect tense, had been).The job is the agent if you treat this as a passive form of the verb to interest. But as I...

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...

Goodman wrote:I don’t see how your sentences are not written in passive voice. They are as passive as passive can get. You wrote: I would translate the above into English as follows:An American soldier was killed in Iraq yesterday ORYesterday, an American soldier was killed in Iraq.I...

Rex wrote: Un soldat américain a été tué en Iraq hier. The above is a passive sentence in French.I would translate the above into English as follows:An American soldier was killed in Iraq yesterday ORYesterday, an American soldier was killed in Iraq.I don't think my English version is a...

Un soldat américain a été tué en Iraq hier.The above is a passive sentence in French.I would translate the above into English as follows:An American soldier was killed in Iraq yesterday ORYesterday, an American soldier was killed in Iraq.I don't think my English version is a passive sentence....

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...