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"I am a doctor" - Could we make this sentence into Passive voice?



 
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"I am a doctor" - Could we make this sentence into Passive voice? #1 (permalink) Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:36 am   "I am a doctor" - Could we make this sentence into Passive voice?
 

I am a doctor.

I think this sentence is in simple present tence and is Active Voice.

Could we make this sentence into Passive voice?
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"I am a doctor" - Could we make this sentence into Passive voice? #2 (permalink) Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:11 am   "I am a doctor" - Could we make this sentence into Passive voice?
 

Yes, we could:

I was made a doctor.
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"I am a doctor" - Could we make this sentence into Passive voice? #3 (permalink) Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:47 pm   "I am a doctor" - Could we make this sentence into Passive voice?
 

Hi LE

Technically speaking, you cannot make your sentence passive.

The only way to express a similar idea in a passive sentence is to use a different verb (as Conchita has done).

- I am a doctor. --> active
- They made me a doctor. -- > active
- I was made a doctor. -- > passive
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