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passive voice



mary-butterfly
Brazil

passive voice
 
hi everybody

Are the sentences below right?

The passive voice of �The rapid pace of technology and population growth is placing unrelenting pressure on the world�s natural resources.� Is.

Unrelenting pressure on the world�s natural resources is being placed by the rapid pace of technology and populatin growth.

 

 

The passive voice of � Pew is constantly seeking environmental projects.�is.

 

-Environmental projects are  constantly being sought by pew.

 

 

 

 

 thanks in advance

19 Sep 2011      





Mariethe House
France

SOunds perfectly right to me Mary,  except the first  sentence sounds more accepteable in the active form than in  the passive!Smile Let �s wait for our honourable grammarians to give their enlightened view!

19 Sep 2011     



mariec
Spain

 I say ; Environmental projects are being constantly sought by pew.

19 Sep 2011     



Apodo
Australia

I �d change the word order:
 
Unrelenting pressure is being placed on the world�s natural resources  by the rapid pace of technology and population growth.
 
 
The �Pew � sentence really needs more context. It sounds very abrupt as it is, but it is technically correct. The active sentence sounds much better.
 

19 Sep 2011     



mary-butterfly
Brazil

thanks everybody 

but 
What what is right?

Environmental projects are being constantly sought by pew.
or
Environmental projects are constantly being sought by pew.

19 Sep 2011     



zuzanavilma
Slovakia



The sentence has two objects so it can be changed into the passive in two ways:

The rapid pace of technology and population growth is placing unrelenting pressure on the world�s natural resources.

Unrelenting pressure is being placed on the world�s natural resources by the rapid pace of technology and population growth.

OR

The world�s natural resources are being placed  unrelenting pressure on by the rapid pace of technology and population growth. 

But the first one is more common.

19 Sep 2011