Convert active to passive
Need help converting this sentence to passive voice:-
The students will assemble in the hall.
I think it should be:-
The hall will be assembled by the students.
But it sounds like students are building the hall by putting together some pieces.
Should I change it to assembled in by the students
? Or something else?
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Need help converting this sentence to passive voice:-
The students will assemble in the hall.
I think it should be:-
The hall will be assembled by the students.
But it sounds like students are building the hall by putting together some pieces.
Should I change it to assembled in by the students
? Or something else?
passive-voice active-voice
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Your teacher is having a joke. The students will assemble in the hall is an intransitive sentence. Passive can only be applied to a transitive sentence. Therefore there is no passive transform for that sentence.
– John Lawler
Dec 17 at 16:39
1
@JohnLawler What, you don’t like “The students will go downtown for lunch” becoming “Downtown will be gone to by the students for lunch” much, eh? :-) Because such abominations do crop up from not-native speakers from time to time, I suspect nobody ever let them in on the joke in the first place.
– tchrist♦
Dec 17 at 16:53
@tchrist non-native speaker here, helping a child with his homework. Your downtown example conversion from active to passive looks correct to me. I know it sounds bad, but since it is a homework, it just needs to be "correct". I don't understand what you are trying to say to John though. Is he right or wrong?
– Kartik
Dec 17 at 17:11
@Kartik John is right: you can't ever do passive inversion on intransitive verbs, including both yours and mine. If what I wrote sounds right to you, somebody has trained you wrong because it’s completely ungrammatical in English. You must have an transitive verb with a direct object to use passive inversion on so that you can invert subject and object. Intransitive verbs lack an object to use for the subject. ¶ Also, homework is a mass noun not a count noun, so you can never say *a homework.
– tchrist♦
Dec 17 at 17:14
@tchrist thank you, I'll read more about every concept you mentioned. Please don't delete your comment. :)
– Kartik
Dec 17 at 17:21
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Need help converting this sentence to passive voice:-
The students will assemble in the hall.
I think it should be:-
The hall will be assembled by the students.
But it sounds like students are building the hall by putting together some pieces.
Should I change it to assembled in by the students
? Or something else?
passive-voice active-voice
Need help converting this sentence to passive voice:-
The students will assemble in the hall.
I think it should be:-
The hall will be assembled by the students.
But it sounds like students are building the hall by putting together some pieces.
Should I change it to assembled in by the students
? Or something else?
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Your teacher is having a joke. The students will assemble in the hall is an intransitive sentence. Passive can only be applied to a transitive sentence. Therefore there is no passive transform for that sentence.
– John Lawler
Dec 17 at 16:39
1
@JohnLawler What, you don’t like “The students will go downtown for lunch” becoming “Downtown will be gone to by the students for lunch” much, eh? :-) Because such abominations do crop up from not-native speakers from time to time, I suspect nobody ever let them in on the joke in the first place.
– tchrist♦
Dec 17 at 16:53
@tchrist non-native speaker here, helping a child with his homework. Your downtown example conversion from active to passive looks correct to me. I know it sounds bad, but since it is a homework, it just needs to be "correct". I don't understand what you are trying to say to John though. Is he right or wrong?
– Kartik
Dec 17 at 17:11
@Kartik John is right: you can't ever do passive inversion on intransitive verbs, including both yours and mine. If what I wrote sounds right to you, somebody has trained you wrong because it’s completely ungrammatical in English. You must have an transitive verb with a direct object to use passive inversion on so that you can invert subject and object. Intransitive verbs lack an object to use for the subject. ¶ Also, homework is a mass noun not a count noun, so you can never say *a homework.
– tchrist♦
Dec 17 at 17:14
@tchrist thank you, I'll read more about every concept you mentioned. Please don't delete your comment. :)
– Kartik
Dec 17 at 17:21
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show 2 more comments
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Your teacher is having a joke. The students will assemble in the hall is an intransitive sentence. Passive can only be applied to a transitive sentence. Therefore there is no passive transform for that sentence.
– John Lawler
Dec 17 at 16:39
1
@JohnLawler What, you don’t like “The students will go downtown for lunch” becoming “Downtown will be gone to by the students for lunch” much, eh? :-) Because such abominations do crop up from not-native speakers from time to time, I suspect nobody ever let them in on the joke in the first place.
– tchrist♦
Dec 17 at 16:53
@tchrist non-native speaker here, helping a child with his homework. Your downtown example conversion from active to passive looks correct to me. I know it sounds bad, but since it is a homework, it just needs to be "correct". I don't understand what you are trying to say to John though. Is he right or wrong?
– Kartik
Dec 17 at 17:11
@Kartik John is right: you can't ever do passive inversion on intransitive verbs, including both yours and mine. If what I wrote sounds right to you, somebody has trained you wrong because it’s completely ungrammatical in English. You must have an transitive verb with a direct object to use passive inversion on so that you can invert subject and object. Intransitive verbs lack an object to use for the subject. ¶ Also, homework is a mass noun not a count noun, so you can never say *a homework.
– tchrist♦
Dec 17 at 17:14
@tchrist thank you, I'll read more about every concept you mentioned. Please don't delete your comment. :)
– Kartik
Dec 17 at 17:21
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3
Your teacher is having a joke. The students will assemble in the hall is an intransitive sentence. Passive can only be applied to a transitive sentence. Therefore there is no passive transform for that sentence.
– John Lawler
Dec 17 at 16:39
Your teacher is having a joke. The students will assemble in the hall is an intransitive sentence. Passive can only be applied to a transitive sentence. Therefore there is no passive transform for that sentence.
– John Lawler
Dec 17 at 16:39
1
1
@JohnLawler What, you don’t like “The students will go downtown for lunch” becoming “Downtown will be gone to by the students for lunch” much, eh? :-) Because such abominations do crop up from not-native speakers from time to time, I suspect nobody ever let them in on the joke in the first place.
– tchrist♦
Dec 17 at 16:53
@JohnLawler What, you don’t like “The students will go downtown for lunch” becoming “Downtown will be gone to by the students for lunch” much, eh? :-) Because such abominations do crop up from not-native speakers from time to time, I suspect nobody ever let them in on the joke in the first place.
– tchrist♦
Dec 17 at 16:53
@tchrist non-native speaker here, helping a child with his homework. Your downtown example conversion from active to passive looks correct to me. I know it sounds bad, but since it is a homework, it just needs to be "correct". I don't understand what you are trying to say to John though. Is he right or wrong?
– Kartik
Dec 17 at 17:11
@tchrist non-native speaker here, helping a child with his homework. Your downtown example conversion from active to passive looks correct to me. I know it sounds bad, but since it is a homework, it just needs to be "correct". I don't understand what you are trying to say to John though. Is he right or wrong?
– Kartik
Dec 17 at 17:11
@Kartik John is right: you can't ever do passive inversion on intransitive verbs, including both yours and mine. If what I wrote sounds right to you, somebody has trained you wrong because it’s completely ungrammatical in English. You must have an transitive verb with a direct object to use passive inversion on so that you can invert subject and object. Intransitive verbs lack an object to use for the subject. ¶ Also, homework is a mass noun not a count noun, so you can never say *a homework.
– tchrist♦
Dec 17 at 17:14
@Kartik John is right: you can't ever do passive inversion on intransitive verbs, including both yours and mine. If what I wrote sounds right to you, somebody has trained you wrong because it’s completely ungrammatical in English. You must have an transitive verb with a direct object to use passive inversion on so that you can invert subject and object. Intransitive verbs lack an object to use for the subject. ¶ Also, homework is a mass noun not a count noun, so you can never say *a homework.
– tchrist♦
Dec 17 at 17:14
@tchrist thank you, I'll read more about every concept you mentioned. Please don't delete your comment. :)
– Kartik
Dec 17 at 17:21
@tchrist thank you, I'll read more about every concept you mentioned. Please don't delete your comment. :)
– Kartik
Dec 17 at 17:21
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I in comments wrote to John Lawler:
What, you don’t like “The students will go downtown for lunch” becoming “Downtown will be gone to by the students for lunch” much, eh? :-) Because such abominations do crop up from not-native speakers from time to time, I suspect nobody ever let them in on the joke in the first place.
And then to the asker:
You can't ever do passive inversion on intransitive verbs, including both yours and mine. If what I wrote sounds right to you, somebody has trained you wrong because it’s completely ungrammatical in English. You must have a transitive verb with a direct object to use passive inversion on so that you can invert subject and object. Intransitive verbs lack an object to use for the subject.
Also, homework is a mass noun not a count noun, so you can never say *a homework.
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According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary: assemble
transitive verb
to bring together (as in a particular place or for a particular purpose)
They assembled a team of experts to solve the problem.
So, the passive sentence is:
'The students will be assembled in the hall.'
As about the logical subject, it is omitted here.
add a comment |
You are correct,
The hall will be assembled by the students.
indicates that the students are building or constructing the hall in some way.
Your second suggestion,
The hall will be assembled in by the students.
is technically correct but sounds quite strange to me. I'm not sure what you need this for, but you might consider substituting a synonym for "assembled." It might sound more natural as something like
The hall will be filled by the students.
The hall will be the location of the student assembly.
It's not technically correct; it has no subject at all, not even an implied one.
– Ben Voigt
Dec 18 at 1:47
add a comment |
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I in comments wrote to John Lawler:
What, you don’t like “The students will go downtown for lunch” becoming “Downtown will be gone to by the students for lunch” much, eh? :-) Because such abominations do crop up from not-native speakers from time to time, I suspect nobody ever let them in on the joke in the first place.
And then to the asker:
You can't ever do passive inversion on intransitive verbs, including both yours and mine. If what I wrote sounds right to you, somebody has trained you wrong because it’s completely ungrammatical in English. You must have a transitive verb with a direct object to use passive inversion on so that you can invert subject and object. Intransitive verbs lack an object to use for the subject.
Also, homework is a mass noun not a count noun, so you can never say *a homework.
add a comment |
I in comments wrote to John Lawler:
What, you don’t like “The students will go downtown for lunch” becoming “Downtown will be gone to by the students for lunch” much, eh? :-) Because such abominations do crop up from not-native speakers from time to time, I suspect nobody ever let them in on the joke in the first place.
And then to the asker:
You can't ever do passive inversion on intransitive verbs, including both yours and mine. If what I wrote sounds right to you, somebody has trained you wrong because it’s completely ungrammatical in English. You must have a transitive verb with a direct object to use passive inversion on so that you can invert subject and object. Intransitive verbs lack an object to use for the subject.
Also, homework is a mass noun not a count noun, so you can never say *a homework.
add a comment |
I in comments wrote to John Lawler:
What, you don’t like “The students will go downtown for lunch” becoming “Downtown will be gone to by the students for lunch” much, eh? :-) Because such abominations do crop up from not-native speakers from time to time, I suspect nobody ever let them in on the joke in the first place.
And then to the asker:
You can't ever do passive inversion on intransitive verbs, including both yours and mine. If what I wrote sounds right to you, somebody has trained you wrong because it’s completely ungrammatical in English. You must have a transitive verb with a direct object to use passive inversion on so that you can invert subject and object. Intransitive verbs lack an object to use for the subject.
Also, homework is a mass noun not a count noun, so you can never say *a homework.
I in comments wrote to John Lawler:
What, you don’t like “The students will go downtown for lunch” becoming “Downtown will be gone to by the students for lunch” much, eh? :-) Because such abominations do crop up from not-native speakers from time to time, I suspect nobody ever let them in on the joke in the first place.
And then to the asker:
You can't ever do passive inversion on intransitive verbs, including both yours and mine. If what I wrote sounds right to you, somebody has trained you wrong because it’s completely ungrammatical in English. You must have a transitive verb with a direct object to use passive inversion on so that you can invert subject and object. Intransitive verbs lack an object to use for the subject.
Also, homework is a mass noun not a count noun, so you can never say *a homework.
answered Dec 17 at 17:22
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According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary: assemble
transitive verb
to bring together (as in a particular place or for a particular purpose)
They assembled a team of experts to solve the problem.
So, the passive sentence is:
'The students will be assembled in the hall.'
As about the logical subject, it is omitted here.
add a comment |
According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary: assemble
transitive verb
to bring together (as in a particular place or for a particular purpose)
They assembled a team of experts to solve the problem.
So, the passive sentence is:
'The students will be assembled in the hall.'
As about the logical subject, it is omitted here.
add a comment |
According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary: assemble
transitive verb
to bring together (as in a particular place or for a particular purpose)
They assembled a team of experts to solve the problem.
So, the passive sentence is:
'The students will be assembled in the hall.'
As about the logical subject, it is omitted here.
According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary: assemble
transitive verb
to bring together (as in a particular place or for a particular purpose)
They assembled a team of experts to solve the problem.
So, the passive sentence is:
'The students will be assembled in the hall.'
As about the logical subject, it is omitted here.
answered Dec 17 at 16:23
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You are correct,
The hall will be assembled by the students.
indicates that the students are building or constructing the hall in some way.
Your second suggestion,
The hall will be assembled in by the students.
is technically correct but sounds quite strange to me. I'm not sure what you need this for, but you might consider substituting a synonym for "assembled." It might sound more natural as something like
The hall will be filled by the students.
The hall will be the location of the student assembly.
It's not technically correct; it has no subject at all, not even an implied one.
– Ben Voigt
Dec 18 at 1:47
add a comment |
You are correct,
The hall will be assembled by the students.
indicates that the students are building or constructing the hall in some way.
Your second suggestion,
The hall will be assembled in by the students.
is technically correct but sounds quite strange to me. I'm not sure what you need this for, but you might consider substituting a synonym for "assembled." It might sound more natural as something like
The hall will be filled by the students.
The hall will be the location of the student assembly.
It's not technically correct; it has no subject at all, not even an implied one.
– Ben Voigt
Dec 18 at 1:47
add a comment |
You are correct,
The hall will be assembled by the students.
indicates that the students are building or constructing the hall in some way.
Your second suggestion,
The hall will be assembled in by the students.
is technically correct but sounds quite strange to me. I'm not sure what you need this for, but you might consider substituting a synonym for "assembled." It might sound more natural as something like
The hall will be filled by the students.
The hall will be the location of the student assembly.
You are correct,
The hall will be assembled by the students.
indicates that the students are building or constructing the hall in some way.
Your second suggestion,
The hall will be assembled in by the students.
is technically correct but sounds quite strange to me. I'm not sure what you need this for, but you might consider substituting a synonym for "assembled." It might sound more natural as something like
The hall will be filled by the students.
The hall will be the location of the student assembly.
answered Dec 17 at 16:22
Typeset Mask
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It's not technically correct; it has no subject at all, not even an implied one.
– Ben Voigt
Dec 18 at 1:47
add a comment |
It's not technically correct; it has no subject at all, not even an implied one.
– Ben Voigt
Dec 18 at 1:47
It's not technically correct; it has no subject at all, not even an implied one.
– Ben Voigt
Dec 18 at 1:47
It's not technically correct; it has no subject at all, not even an implied one.
– Ben Voigt
Dec 18 at 1:47
add a comment |
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Your teacher is having a joke. The students will assemble in the hall is an intransitive sentence. Passive can only be applied to a transitive sentence. Therefore there is no passive transform for that sentence.
– John Lawler
Dec 17 at 16:39
1
@JohnLawler What, you don’t like “The students will go downtown for lunch” becoming “Downtown will be gone to by the students for lunch” much, eh? :-) Because such abominations do crop up from not-native speakers from time to time, I suspect nobody ever let them in on the joke in the first place.
– tchrist♦
Dec 17 at 16:53
@tchrist non-native speaker here, helping a child with his homework. Your downtown example conversion from active to passive looks correct to me. I know it sounds bad, but since it is a homework, it just needs to be "correct". I don't understand what you are trying to say to John though. Is he right or wrong?
– Kartik
Dec 17 at 17:11
@Kartik John is right: you can't ever do passive inversion on intransitive verbs, including both yours and mine. If what I wrote sounds right to you, somebody has trained you wrong because it’s completely ungrammatical in English. You must have an transitive verb with a direct object to use passive inversion on so that you can invert subject and object. Intransitive verbs lack an object to use for the subject. ¶ Also, homework is a mass noun not a count noun, so you can never say *a homework.
– tchrist♦
Dec 17 at 17:14
@tchrist thank you, I'll read more about every concept you mentioned. Please don't delete your comment. :)
– Kartik
Dec 17 at 17:21