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Does this conversion work?

She read the children a story.→The children were read a story by her.
 
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No. Look at your person/verb agreement.
 

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Sorry. I forgot to edit it before posting it. I've fixed it.

Now, does it work?
 

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It's a possible sentence, but the active sounds more natural.
 

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OK. So it's possible but not really natural. Good.

Thanks, Tdol!
 

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If you name "her", it sounds more natural, for example "Janet read the children a story", "The children were read a story by Janet".
 

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Without 'by...' as:

The children were read a story.

would it sound perfectly natural?
 

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Good. Thanks.

Why did you capitalize the w, by the way? It's 'Without 'by...' as 'The children were read a story', would it sound perfectly natural?'.
 
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