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ademoglu

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Hi:

A friend of mine who is not a native speaker of English or a teacher said to me that it is impossible to say 'The teacher was agreed with by them.'

I know that passive sentence sounds a little weird, but I'd like to ask if it is possible in grammar or not.

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It's grammatical but it is extremely unnatural. There are just some sentences that don't work in the passive even when they're grammatically correct.
 

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It's grammatical but it is extremely unnatural. There are just some sentences that don't work in the passive even when they're grammatically correct.

This statement is agreed with by me.
 
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