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teresasimoes
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I completely agree with Bruce. The easiest way of recognising a passive voice sentence is to have the verb "to be" as auxiliary verb plus the past participle of the main verb - (Example: passive - "John was given an interesting book"). The active voice would be: Someone gave John an interesting book. |
25 Mar 2022
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cunliffe
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Bruce is right - as usual;-) but I think I am, too. Forget �to be,� the only way to make that sentence passive is to replace collection with to be collected. |
25 Mar 2022
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yanogator
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Well, Lynne, since the main verb of the sentence is "will be", I would say that your change has a passive phrase (ready to be collected) in it, but the sentence is still active. Bruce |
25 Mar 2022
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cunliffe
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Well, Bruce, I would say that the question ought to be rephrased so that my answer fits.  Lynne x |
26 Mar 2022
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mimib21
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I am really grateful. Thanks to all of you. |
27 Mar 2022
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yanogator
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Actually, Lynne, I think that is an excellen tsuggestion. Bruce |
29 Mar 2022
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cunliffe
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Thank you, Bruce.  Lynne |
31 Mar 2022
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