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Active sentences into personal passives
Hi! I was studying how to change a normal active sentence into a personal passive one (where possible). The sentence I'm not sure was:
While I was visiting Pike Place Market, someone threw a fish at me!
I tryed
While I was visiting Pike Place Market, a fish was thrown by someone at me.
While I was visiting Pike Place Market, a fish was thrown at me by someone.
Could someone give me a hint if some of these are right? And if possible, i didn't understand how is not possible to change a active sentence into a personal passive. Someone has a counterexample?
I appreciate your comments.
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Re: Active sentences into personal passives

Originally Posted by
gintoki14m
While I was visiting Pike Place Market, someone threw a fish at me!
I tryied
1. While I was visiting Pike Place Market, a fish was thrown by someone at me.
2. While I was visiting Pike Place Market, a fish was thrown at me by someone.
#2 is more natural. #3, below, is even more natural:
While I was visiting Pike Place Market, a fish was thrown at me.
#Could someone give me a hint if some of these are right? And if possible, iI (didn't) don't understand how it is not possible to change an active sentence into a personal passive. Someone has a counterexample?
What do you mean by 'personal passive?
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Re: Active sentences into personal passives
Thanks for the corrections! When I say Personal Passive i mean that the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence. Just to be different of the Impersonal Passive and other types of Passive.
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Re: Active sentences into personal passives

Originally Posted by
gintoki14m
Thanks for the corrections! When I say Personal Passive i mean that the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence. Just to be different of the Impersonal Passive and other types of Passive.
♥♦♣♠ NOT A TEACHER ♥♦♣♠
...I was thrown a fish at (by someone). but such an utterance is not common, if not impossible.
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Re: Active sentences into personal passives

Originally Posted by
engee30
♥♦♣♠ NOT A TEACHER ♥♦♣♠
...I was thrown a fish at (by someone). but such an utterance is not common, if not impossible.
It is, indeed, impossible.
We can, however, have, 'I was thrown a fish', where the active equivalent is 'X threw me a fish'.
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Re: Active sentences into personal passives

Originally Posted by
gintoki14m
Hi! I was studying how to change a normal active sentence into a personal passive one (where possible). The sentence I'm not sure was:
While I was visiting Pike Place Market, someone threw a fish at me!
I tryed
While I was visiting Pike Place Market, a fish was thrown by someone at me.
While I was visiting Pike Place Market, a fish was thrown at me by someone.
Could someone give me a hint if some of these are right? And if possible, i didn't understand how is not possible to change a active sentence into a personal passive. Someone has a counterexample?
I appreciate your comments.
"A fish was thrown at me while I was visiting Pike Place Market."
This could be a possible answer.
(Subject to opinions)
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Re: Active sentences into personal passives

Originally Posted by
slim-shen
"A fish was thrown at me while I was visiting Pike Place Market."
This could be a possible answer.
That's the suggestion I made in post #2 - well, it is if you change the order of the clauses.
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