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The Passive

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Robert Buckmaster
Nov 13, 2024
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The Active and Passive are often seen as transformational poles: you can transform Active sentences into Passive ones and vice versa. This idea comes about from the laudable aim of working from the known to unknown. Our students know the Active and so we move, by transformation, to the Passive. The standard view of this transformation is the the Active …

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