Writing with Tenses / Active & Passive Voice
LESSON 147 OF 261 · 7 MIN READ

Sentences Without Objects

An ordinary passive conversion normally needs an active object. A place or time phrase is not automatically an object. Do not invent a receiver.

Understand the idea

An ordinary passive conversion normally needs an active object. A place or time phrase is not automatically an object. Do not invent a receiver.

Look closely

He sleeps. → No ordinary passive.

She laughed. He arrived. The baby slept. They went home.

Do not write: Sleep is slept by him.

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