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An intransitive verb cannot be used in the passive voice.

An intransitive verb cannot be used in the passive voice.

True
False


Votes: 428 Comments: 6 Added: August 2003
Comments:
jill - 4th November 2003 17:36
False. Example:

The sentence was not easily parsed.
 
Henry - 10th November 2003 08:35
I don't understand Jill's example. After all, parse is a transitive verb.
 
sameer - 17th November 2003 20:42
Jill's example is wrong,because parse is a transitive verb, and the sentence was parsed by somebody
 
chainsaw - 2nd December 2003 02:20
True. Intransitive verbs
by definition don't have
direct objects. Passive
voice requires that the object of a verb function as the subject of a sentence.
 
srikantbiswal - 8th November 2006 15:32
Yes,

This is correct. Since it does not have a direct object, intransitive verb can not be used in passive voice.
 
Sunil - 17th April 2008 17:13
In some languages intransitive verbs can be used in passive voice. There are two kinds of passive voices. I do not know the terminology in English but in Sanskrit, they are knows as KarmVachya, where the obect has precednce, and BhavaVachya passive use of intransitive verbs such as "to sleep".
 
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