Hi A few comments to your question... Traditionally, ESL students have been taught passive tense by adding "by" to an agent in the sentence. This rule can be misleading, or at least proved confusing to some learners. Not

2. My father painted the house. The house was painted by my father. 3. The storm will destroy the harvest. The harvest was will be destroyed by the storm. 4. He has knocked the fence over. The fence was has been knocked over by him. 5. The man

Hi there, I am just wondering if I have re-worded these sentences correctly. The first group of sentences have to be changed from active to passive, and the sencond group from passive to active. My answer will be in Italic and bolded. I believe

The duckling hatched from the egg. The duckling has hatched from the egg. The duckling had hatched from the egg. These are all correct English, and written in the active voice. They differ in tense. The duckling was hatched from

I'd say sentence 11 is by far the most difficult of these. Nevertheless, the only thing you need to do is find the subject, verb and object in the active sentence, and then use the object as the subject in the passive sentence. Who made these

Hi Anon Yes, the verb "remain" is intransitive, and I wouldn't ever expect to see it used in the passive voice. Sentence 1 is OK, and sentence 2 is not. The verb "need" (meaning "must have") is transitive, and you

Hi Anon 1) Today's work is done. -- Here, the participle (is it a participle, anyway?) seems to be an adjective. I don't think this is a passive tense (with no agent). 2) Today's work is done by Sue. -- Here, it seems to be clear it is

how could we make sure whether we are looking at a passive sentence or a sentence with a "be" verb followed by an adjective in cases like this I think you have already solved your own problem. The other words in the sentence, like by Joe