[Grammar] Passive or Active?

[Mary_Poppins]

Hello to everybody,

Which voice, Passive or Active, should I use in a following example?

I'm cooking a dish. I cut vegetables and put them into a pot and put the pot into an oven.
1. Now my dish is cooking by itself.
2. Now my dish is being cooked by itself.

Which sentence is correct?

 

[Matthew Wai]

Vegetables are cooking in the pot.

Not a teacher.

 

[MikeNewYork]

Active: The vegetables are cooking.
Passive: The vegetables are being cooked.

 

[Barb_D]

Actually neither.
It's the "middle voice" or "ergative," a grammatical term not much used.

I cook the vegetables-- active
The vegetables were cooked by Sam -- passive
The vegetables are cooking -- ergative.

You can search for the term.

 

[Mary_Poppins]

Active: The vegetables are cooking.
Passive: The vegetables are being cooked.

Thank you. Can you tell me, please, which one, Passive or Active, sounds more natural for native speakers?

 

[Mary_Poppins]

Actually neither.
It's the "middle voice" or "ergative," a grammatical term not much used.

I cook the vegetables-- active
The vegetables were cooked by Sam -- passive
The vegetables are cooking -- ergative.

You can search for the term.

Thank you very much! I've never heard about the middle voice.

 

[Barb_D]

Don't use the passive unless there is a good reason.
You don't know who did it.
You want to hide who did it.

 

[Mary_Poppins]

I couldn't wish for a better explanation! Thank you very much.

Native speakers in common are so kind and polite, they don't want to hurt me correcting my mistakes.:lol: This is why this forum is priceless.