Sentence examples for the passive form from inspiring English sources

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But, the passive form of autogenous healing plays only an inferior role for a complete repair of a cementitious material.

Foster says that poem shares several of the hallmarks of Moore's writing, including frequent use of "dread," reliance on the adjective "various" and an unusual use of the passive form "seen". "Old Santaclaus" devoted four stanzas to castigating naughty children.

The gold atoms then aggregate into seed particles, which finally react with the passive form of the precursor in a growth step.

Heller is self-deprecating in her account of Barbara's birth, putting it in the passive form despite the acclaim for the book in 2003, including a shortlisting for the Booker prize: "Discovering Barbara, deciding to make her the narrator, was the great gift of the book.

Comprise doesn't work so well in the passive form.

One of these cons takes on the passive form of price gouging.

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(on a particular occasion).' Compare also tha ghrápho 'I'll be writing' but tha ghrápso 'I'll write (once).' The difference is sometimes represented lexically in English: ákuye 'he listened' and ákuse 'he heard.' The passive forms are largely confined to certain verbs active in meaning like érkhome 'I come,' fováme 'I am afraid,' and reciprocal usages (filyóndusan 'they were kissing').

Today's question from Thailand is about when to use the active and the passive forms - join Sian and Clare as they answer this question and share with you 4 occasions when you should use the passive structure.

A direct translation of Baddeley's 3-min grammatical reasoning test into Persian was not possible as the passive forms of the verbs "follow" and "proceed" cannot be translated into Persian.

During the 19th century, the older passive form — "Joe was graduated from college" — was being elbowed out by today's standard phrasing — "Joe graduated from college".

The passive film formed on the γN phase in 0.5 mol/l H2SO4 solution was similar to that of original stainless steel.

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