[Grammar] Passive voice!

[Ikramullah]

What are passive sentences for the following active sentences?
1. Thank you.
2. Congratulations!
3. Oops! I locked the keys in my car.
4. I agreewith him.
5. Nice to meet you.
6. I love her.

 

[2006]

What are passive sentences for the following active sentences?
1. Thank you.
2. Congratulations!
3. Oops! I locked the keys in my car.
4. I agreewith him.
5. Nice to meet you.
6. I love her.

You should try first.

 

[Ikramullah]

I am confused!

 

[timmpage]

What are passive sentences for the following active sentences?
1. Thank you. - You are thanked.
2. Congratulations! - You are congratulated.
3. Oops! I locked the keys in my car. - The keys were locked in my car (by me).
4. I agreewith him. - He was agreed with (by me).
5. Nice to meet you. - You are well met (by me).
6. I love her. - She is loved (by me).

see above

 

[2006]

What are passive sentences for the following active sentences?
Some of these are real head-scratchers.
T = as timmpage wrote

1. Thank you. T or 'You are being thanked.'
2. Congratulations! T or 'You are being congratulated.'
3. Oops! I locked the keys in my car. T but you need "by me".
4. I agreewith him. He is agreed with by me. T is passive for 'I agreed with him.'
5. Nice to meet you. ?? Being met by you is nice. ?? Nice to be met by you.
6. I love her. T but you need 'by me".

2006 :-?

:roll:

 

[Raymott]

2006 :-?

:roll:

I agree

 

[timmpage]

Hey 2006, thanks for the corrections! I saw "agreed" instead of "agree".

"Nice to meet you." is a fragment. The full sentence should be "It is nice to meet you." Since something I consider "nice" would usually mean it pleases me, could a passive version be "I'm pleased to meet you." :?:

 

[Barb_D]

Most of these would never, EVER be said in the passive by a native speaker.

 

[bhaisahab]

Most of these would never, EVER be said in the passive by a native speaker.

It seems that there are a lot of, to say the least, dubious exercises demanding the passive form of totally unsuitable phrases, are these things written by computers or idiots?

 

[2006]

Hey 2006, thanks for the corrections! I saw "agreed" instead of "agree".

"Nice to meet you." is a fragment. The full sentence should be "It is nice to meet you." Since something I consider "nice" would usually mean it pleases me, could a passive version be "I'm pleased to meet you." :?:
I don't think "I'm pleased (= happy) to meet you." is passive.

Of course I agree that some of those statements would not be used in the passive form, and I probably would have not responded if the "agree" mistake were not there.
Having jumped in, I decided to have a go at the others too. Sometimes pointless exercises can still be interesting.

 

[mmasny]

As for the fifth sentence: it is an elliptic form of 'It is nice to meet you.'
You cannot grammatically rewrite a sentence whose main verb is 'to be' in the passive voice at all. It is already passive by nature.

 

[Ikramullah]

I do not think He is agreed with is a correct passive sentence.
Agree with is not used in passive sentence.