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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 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...

Hi Ohn What you seem to have overlooked here is that the main verb in your short little sentence is ask . " I'm being asked " = the present continuous of the verb ask in the passive voice . " I'm being asked " = " Someone is asking me. " " Someone is asking me. " = active voice " I'm being asked...

Lin1978 wrote: Thank you, Master Yankee. Your answer is quite clear. But I still have one small question. Last time my teacher told me that, "if I have two different subjects in a main clause and in a conditional, and I want to use the participle phrase, I have to keep both two subjects or...

How to form the passive sentence that corresponds to a given active sentence. Active: The dog bit the man. 1. Divide into subject, verb, and object. The dog || bit || the man. 2. Exchange subject and object. The man || bit || the dog. 3. Add by to the...

Hi Musesun "This forbidden to make money in the university" is not a correct sentence. The word "forbidden" is not a tense at all -- it is just the past participle (V3) of the verb 'forbid'. You can say "This is forbidden", but you cannot say "This forbidden". Have you learned how to make...

Active: The officer has captured the subjects. The officer : subject has : auxiliary perfect tense verb in 3rd person singular since officer is a singular noun captured : past participle, needed for the perfect tense the subjects : object of has captured Passive: The subjects have been...

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...

Kate was overworked ; this is not passive voice since Kate was not acted upon. SV+ predicative adjective The premises staff cleaned the floor . This is an active sentence where the verb is in past tense. SVO The papers should be photocopied. This is a passive sentence: SV. S = the...

Hi Selva, Welcome to the Forum. "The baby is born" - Is it a passive sentence? Is the word born a past participle? What is the present tense for "born" The active verb is 'bear'. A woman bears a child / bore a child. However, this active form is rarely used in everyday English. We say...