Re: active vs. passive

Subject: Re: active vs. passive
From: Karin Matchett <wordcraft -at- karinmatchett -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 07:48:26 -0500

I agree. In addition to needing a form of "to be," it needs an explicit
subject.
The question of active vs. passive doesn't even apply to this sentence
because it's a command, which only has an implied subject of "you." My
sense of why the question of passive voice is coming up is that there
are different ways to phrase this sentence that are differently
direct/indirect/confusing/obtuse/imprecise. These have a similar feel
to active/passive, but they're not the same thing -- there's no
overlap.
Karin

On 8/4/2017 7:23 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:

Since the subject specifically refers to active vs. passive, I'll
repeat what I said in that long thread, only correctly (it has been a
long and busy day):

A phrase in passive voice has to have a form of the verb "be" and a
past participle. There's more to it, but without those, it's not
passive voice.

Garner's "Modern American Usage" has good explanations for things like that.
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