In Passive sentences^x, Predicates^x

In response to the questions posed in the first post of this thread, "the officer" is NOT the subject of the sentence regardless of whether the sentence is active or passive. "The officer" is undoubtedly the doer of the action in both sentences, but it is the subject only in...

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...

Paco2004 wrote: "Jay is now reading the book" --> passivize --> "The book is now being read by Jay" You can do this way as an exercise about how to make a passive sentence. But strictly speaking, "The book is now being read by Jay" sounds weird to native speaker's ears. In English,...

"Jay is now reading the book" --> passivize --> "The book is now being read by Jay" You can do this way as an exercise about how to make a passive sentence. But strictly speaking, "The book is now being read by Jay" sounds weird to native speaker's ears. In English, passivization is...

In a sentence in the passive voice, the receiver of the action is both the grammatical/formal subject and the real/notional subject. In "A new art gallery was opened last Saturday" "a new art gallery" is the only possible subject of the sentence. It is both the grammatical and the notional...

Hello, Daniel There is an explanation for the existence of sentences like "I'm given water" which is, by the way, grammatically correct. As has been explained here, the first you need in order for a sentence in the passive voice to be possible is a transitive verb and its direct object....