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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...

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...

The second sentence is incorrect. It is meant that is not English. hoped and meant are past participles. These are passive sentences.The general rule is that if a past participle is adjectival, then you do not have a case of passive voice; if the past participle is not adjectival, then you...

I have recently been debating with someone about the true nature of passive voice. While we both understand that passive voice is when the subject of a sentence receives the action, like "he was hit by the ball", we can't agree about a specific case.Consider the sentence:"It...

(b) is fine. I'm not keen on (a). It's fairly common to omit second and subsequent instances of "was" in passive sentences. For example "She was bitten by a snake and admitted to hospital". However, if the first item is an adjective (as "sick" in your...

.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 Mary a...

I'm not an expert on grammar or linguistics, but here are my thoughts as an ordinary native user of English. I hope I got all the grammatical terminology correct! I think that all verbs -- transitive or intransitive -- are able to form present perfect sentences: "He has died",...

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 turnover) is a noun. If a company for some unknown reasons...

Many ESL grammar books require learners to convert active sentences to passive ones. If the book was well-written, the active sentences will be appropriate for conversion to passive ones. Unfortunately, there are plenty of grammar books and exercises that are not terribly well-written. Such...

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...