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syoshioka99
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 Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:33 am Post subject: A question regarding "voice" |
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1) "She proposed to do it."
(Question) Which sentence would be the correct one when you change the active voice (sentence #1) into the passive voice, #2 or #3?
2) It was proposed to do by her.
3) To do it was proposed by her.
To me, #3 seems more correct.
Satoru
Tochigi, Japan
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CP
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| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 12:59 pm Post subject: |
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It is unlikely that you wuold see a native speaker say this in the passive voice, but if he did, he would probably say:
"It was proposed by her that she do it."
Sentence 2 no.
Sentence 3 is grammatically correct but not at all natural.
Hope this helps.
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syoshioka99
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| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:11 pm Post subject: another question regarding "voice" |
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| CP wrote: |
It is unlikely that you wuold see a native speaker say this in the passive voice, but if he did, he would probably say:
"It was proposed by her that she do it."
Sentence 2 no.
Sentence 3 is grammatically correct but not at all natural.
Hope this helps. |
How about this?
It was proposed to do it by her.
(The first 'it' refers to 'to do it') |
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syoshioka99
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| Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:21 pm Post subject: what does 'it' refer to? |
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The new discoveries that mathematicians are making are very varied in type, so varied indeed that it has been proposed (in despair) to define mathematics as �what mathematicians do�: for mathematicians today attack many problems not regarded as mathematical in the past, and what they will do in the future there is no saying.
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What does 'it' refer to?
My guess is...
1) It=to define mathematics as �what mathematicians do�
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2) It=something else (which I do not know) |
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