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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...

. John likes pizza. Pizza is liked by John. There is no object in the second sentence. The subject of the passive sentence ( pizza ) is the object of its active equivalent. By John is an adverb. John is the agent in both sentences. Of course, some passive sentences can have objects: John gave...

Hi Amy, The "by" at the end was put there by design because if I use a passives structure to "measure" something, it needs to be clear as to "by" what methodology or ways that it was guaged/ measured/ or judged by. Thanks for the reply and comment from CJ and you. I understand completely your...

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 verbs have "active" forms in which the verb...

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 frequencies for the uses of " walk down X " and "...