Let the door be opened

[Tait-ka]

1. Open the door.
1a. Let the door be opened.

2. Do it.
2a. Let it be done.

3. Clean the room.
3a. Let the room be cleaned.

I created these sentences.
Are the 'a' sentences passive sentences?

 

[Piscean]

There are two verb constructions in each sentence. The first is imperative and the second is passive infinitive.

The sentences are grammatical, but stiff and old-fashioned.

 

[emsr2d2]

1. Open the door.
1a. Let the door be opened.

2. Do it.
2a. Let it be done.

3. Clean the room.
3a. Let the room be cleaned.

I created these sentences.
Are the 'a' sentences passive? sentences?

Yes, the "be opened/be done/be cleaned" are passive.

Please refrain from using bold in your threads. We frequently use bold in our responses to indicate errors/corrections and it gets confusing if there's bold in the original too. I've come up with one solution above. Alternatively, you could have numbered the sentences 1-6 and asked if 2, 4 and 6 were in the passive voice.

 

[Annabel Lee]

Are the 'a' sentences passive sentences?

If your question is supposed to mean, "Are the 'a' sentences the non-'a' sentences passivized?," my answer is no, because no one is being commanded to do anything in the "Let" sentences, whereas the interlocutor is being commanded in (1), (2), and (3). To preserve commandedness, while also having a variety of the passive, I'd use the "Get" construction:

1b. Get the door open(ed).​

2b. Get it done.​

3b. Get the room clean(ed).​

 

[Skrej]

Go full biblical, and passively command the door itself.

"Door, be opened!"

 

[Tait-ka]

There are two verb constructions in each sentence. The first is imperative and the second is passive infinitive.

Sorry I am confused here. Do you mean sentences 1, 2 and 3 are imperative and sentences 1a, 2a and 3a are passive infinitive?

 

[jutfrank]

Sorry I am confused here. Do you mean sentences 1, 2 and 3 are imperative and sentences 1a, 2a and 3a are passive infinitive?

Piscean meant that sentences 1a, 2a, and 3a are both imperative and passive. Sentences 1, 2, and 3 are imperative but not passive.