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Old 05-Oct-2006, 08:16
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Default Re: From Active to Passive

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Originally Posted by miniwave View Post
Hi everyone!
The sentence: "The woman is bringing drinks for the guests." has direct and indirect objects.
I would change it to passive by positioning the direct object "drinks" as the subject of passive sentence, this way:
Drinks are being brought for the guests by the woman.
I want to know if it is grammatically correct to change it like this:
The guests are being brought drinks by the woman.
What do you think?
Tnx for answering
with the verb has 2 objects. One of them can become subject in the passive sêntence. But generally we use the personal object to be used in subject of passive sentence.That mean your second one is normal use.
But I think your first one is:Drinks are being brought to the guests by the woman. It is better...I think so.
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