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  1. 26-Nov-2011, 07:11 #1
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    Default The jeans were sold to the customers.

    "The jeans were sold to the customers." Is this a passive sentence ?
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    Default Re: The jeans were sold to the customers.

    It's is a sentence containing a passive construction. Many people would call it a passsive sentence.
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    Default Re: The jeans were sold to the customers.

    If you were wondering because there's no agent, most passives don't have an agent.
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