Aktiv statt Passiv
When do we NOT form passive sentences?
We DO NOT form passive sentences with …
1. … intransitive verbs (verbs which do not have a direct object), for example:
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to run, to come, to go, to arrive, to walk, to sit, to wait, to depart
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to die
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to cough
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to cry
This means you can only form an active construction like: He walks.
But you cannot use a passive construction as 'to walk' is not done to someone or something.
2. ... state verbs (verbs which describe how things are), for example:
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to agree, to believe, to doubt, to guess, to imagine, to know, to mean, to recognise, to remember, to suspect, to think, to understand |
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to dislike, to hate, to like, to love, to prefer, to want, to wish |
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to be, to appear, to feel, to hear, to see, to taste, to smell, to sound, to seam |
3. … the verb 'to be' + born
The verb 'to be' + born is always in the past.
This means you can only form a passive construction like: She was born in 1999.
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