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Passive or active? (Bidding for the projects is expected to start in September) #1 (permalink) Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:25 am   Passive or active? (Bidding for the projects is expected to start in September)
 

Dear friends,
I have a doubt on a sentence I found on a news paper.
"Bidding for the projects is expected to start in September and be completed by October".
Why it is not "be started" (alike "be completed")?
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Passive or active? (Bidding for the projects is expected to start in September) #2 (permalink) Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:36 am   Passive or active? (Bidding for the projects is expected to start in September)
 

Hi SiamS,

There is an imbalance in this sentence, as you have noticed. For the sake of balance you could say: to be started or you could write it out to make a distinction between the two infinitives like this:

Bidding for the projects is expected to start in September and to be completed by October.

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Passive or active? (Bidding for the projects is expected to start in September) #3 (permalink) Wed Aug 19, 2009 2:46 am   Passive or active? (Bidding for the projects is expected to start in September)
 

Dear Alan,
It is clear to me. Thanks so much for your help.
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Passive or active? (Bidding for the projects is expected to start in September) #4 (permalink) Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:01 am   Passive or active? (Bidding for the projects is expected to start in September)
 

I think that DR. Alan give u the answer
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