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Using the word supposed. #1 (permalink) Sat Oct 03, 2009 7:43 am   Using the word supposed.
 

Reading this sentence, "I am supposed to go". Is supposed in this sentence active or passive?
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Using the word supposed. #2 (permalink) Sat Oct 03, 2009 14:37 pm   Using the word supposed.
 

Passive. To be + past participle is passive.

You may ask: who is it that supposes? The answer to this question gives you the agent, the one who does the action. In this sentence, we cannot get such an answer, because the agent is not mentioned.

And yet we have a subject: I. Since the subject is not the one who "does" the action of the verb, but the one the action is done to, the construction must be passive.
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