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Ellen Tsai
A grammer question about passive voice and active voice
There is a sentence like this: The insect is too difficult to see without using the microscope.
Why it can't be like this: The insect is too difficult to be seen without using the microscope.
Thank you!
2011년 1월 26일 오전 4:55
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too difficult to see
to difficult to + verb ... has a passive voice meaning, but the verb is not in the passive voice.
Likewise: too easy to do; too hot to touch; to ugly to look at; etc
2011년 1월 26일
The active voice version of your sentence would be, "One can't see the insect [without difficulty] without a microscope." Your second version is the correct passive form: we use the past participle form of the verb ("seen") in passives. The first version almost sounds like the INSECT cannot see without difficulty unless it uses a microscope!
2011년 1월 26일
actively passive voice:
You will be chewed out by me. :P
2011년 1월 26일
아직도 답을 찾지 못하셨나요?
질문을 남겨보세요. 원어민이 도움을 줄 수 있을 거예요!
Ellen Tsai
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중국어(북경어), 중국어(기타), 영어, 한국어, 스페인어
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