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passive voice #1 (permalink) Sun Jan 24, 2010 9:53 am   passive voice
 

only transitive verbs may form their passive voices,but sometimes even transitive verbs do not have a passive voice,why??????????
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passive voice #2 (permalink) Sun Jan 24, 2010 14:33 pm   passive voice
 

Give us an example of a transitive verb that cannot be put into the passive voice. I can't think of one.
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