Re: active vs. passive

[Karin Matchett <wordcraft -at- karinmatchett -dot- com>]

   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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