"passive" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- As both the active and the passive sentence mean the same thing, it is reasonable to ask why we need both.
- The second advantage of passive sentences is that they have a different word order from active sentences.
- Instead of using somebody or they etc., write a passive sentence.
- You can easily rewrite an active sentence to a passive sentence.
- Definite objects can be topicalized in both active and passive sentences.
- In a literary essay, however, you should be cautious about leaving out the actor in a passive sentence.
- Another method of making a passive sentence active is to change the subject of the verb.
- No distinction is made, for example, between active versus passive sentences.
- Subjects were told whether to produce an active or a passive sentence to describe the picture, and production latency was measured.
- In a passive sentence, the agent is a chômeur, having been "demoted" from the central or nuclear function of subject.
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