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rayt

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Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 4:24 am Post subject: passive to active

please help me with re-writing sentence below to active sentence Are you taught Japanese at school? Thank you.

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Lorikeet

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Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 1:32 am Post subject: Re: passive to active

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rayt wrote:

please help me with re-writing sentence below to active sentence

Are you taught Japanese at school?

The meaning of the sentence is "Do you study Japanese at school?"

If you make it "active" you might come up with something like "Does someone teach you Japanese at school?" but actually, that is not a sentence we would be likely to use.

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