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Sentence to passive voice: She have been waiting since 2:00 A.M.



 
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Sentence to passive voice: She have been waiting since 2:00 A.M. #1 (permalink) Thu Sep 10, 2009 21:02 pm   Sentence to passive voice: She have been waiting since 2:00 A.M.
 

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Thankyou #2 (permalink) Thu Sep 10, 2009 21:04 pm   Thankyou
 

Hi Torsten Daerr,

I have a question. How to change the following sentence to passive voice
1. She have been waiting since 2:00 A.M.
2. I had been studyining in this college since 2006.

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Thankyou #3 (permalink) Sat Sep 12, 2009 1:44 am   Thankyou
 

They cannot be changed to passive, since they are intransitive verbs. Only transitive verbs can be made passive.
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Thankyou #5 (permalink) Sun Sep 13, 2009 0:06 am   Thankyou
 

Hi Mister Micawber,
Thank you very much for your answer.

I shall be much grateful if you could elaborate your answer with examples,

Does it mean all perfect continuous forms; never accept direct objects and they cannot be changed to passive form?

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Thankyou #6 (permalink) Sun Sep 13, 2009 0:16 am   Thankyou
 

'Perfect continuous' has nothing to do with transitivity:

Perfect continuous transitive: 'My wife has been currying my horse.'
Perfect continuous intransitive: 'I have been sleeping.'

The passive form of the perfect continuous transitive verb is grammatically possible but rare to near non-existence-- authentic examples are extremely hard to find: 'My horse has been being curried by my wife all this week.'

There is no passive form of the intransitive verb above.
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