Poll: An intransitive verb cannot be used in the passive voice.
An intransitive verb cannot be used in the passive voice. |
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Votes: 927
Comments: 12
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". |
| JJ - 24th October 2008 00:54 |
| False, even in English. It would be more precise to say intransitive verbs resist passive form. For example: sneeze is an intransitive verb. Example sentence: "Someone sneezed on her." Passive: "She was sneezed on (by someone)." It is impossible, however, to make an intransitive verb in English passive without using a prepositional phrase. Example sentence: "Someone sneezed." Passive: ??? |
| Makarand - 10th December 2008 06:21 |
| "I am sleeping" cannot be converted in passive voice because sleep is intransitive verb.Similarly work, smile are the verbs which are not great when used in passive form.Work is both tr and intr verb though |
| Patrick Schulz - 19th October 2009 05:25 |
| false. In German, for example, you can build a passive w# an intransitive by using expletive 'es': Active: Die Zuschauer klatschen. the spectators clap Passive: Es wird geklatscht. it was clapped. I'm no english native, so i dunno whether this also holds for English. |
| Dgr - 5th February 2010 17:24 |
| In the example, (She was sneezed on by someone.), 'to sneeze' on is a transitive phrasal verb. This does not contradict the rule that only transitive verbs can be used in a grammatically correct passive sentence. |
| jen - 24th May 2010 09:19 |
| Die is an intransitive verb. Passive tone: He dies by lethal injection. |
| blahblahblah - 1st October 2011 22:32 |
| nope, not passive. just a normal sentence. compare: 'he travels by train'. |
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