[Grammar] Passive voice

[barnej0096]

How to change this sentence into passive?
It's a little too loose, you had better ask your tailor to take it in. (One passive)

 

[Barb_D]

Welcome to Using English.
As you'll see, we expect people to make an attempt at answering their questions first and then we help. It's hard to learn if we just give answers.

In your question, there is a person who is to perform an action on something. That person is the tailor.
You need to make the "something" that is receiving the action the subject of the sentence. (Hint: The "something" is a pronoun.)

 

[barnej0096]

It's a little too loose, you had better ask your tailor to have it taken in?

 

[5jj]

It's a little too loose, you had better ask your tailor to have it taken in?

That would mean that the tailor was asking someone else to do the work. In the original, you wanted the tailor to do the work. In the version you want, forget the tailor until the end.

It's a little too loose; .... .. ..... .. (by the tailor).

 

[barnej0096]

Hmmm... I don't know. It's a little too loose, you had better have it taken by the tailor. That's all I can come up with. But it sounds complicated...

 

[5jj]

Hmmm... I don't know. It's a little too loose, you had better have it taken in by the tailor. That's all I can come up with. But it sounds complicated...

It sounds fine to me, apart from the missing in. Don't forget, you are under no obligation, outside coursebook exercises and examinations, to use the construction. In speech and informal writing, the had is almost always contracted to 'd.

 

[barnej0096]

Thank You :-D

 

[5jj]

Thank You :-D

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