How to use passive voice in a sentence?
And as he ate it, she looked at him steadily.
In this sort of grammatical constructions, she works as a subject of the sentence with active voice.
Now, consider a sentence which I read in The Hindu:
And as the nation heard and saw him, a sense of India's greatness stirred within it.
Now, in this sentence "a sense" is working as noun but the part "within it" is making this sentence passive unless there were "was" before "stirred". So, Is this sentence correct?
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And as he ate it, she looked at him steadily.
In this sort of grammatical constructions, she works as a subject of the sentence with active voice.
Now, consider a sentence which I read in The Hindu:
And as the nation heard and saw him, a sense of India's greatness stirred within it.
Now, in this sentence "a sense" is working as noun but the part "within it" is making this sentence passive unless there were "was" before "stirred". So, Is this sentence correct?
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What do you mean by "is this sentence correct"? In what sense?
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And as he ate it, she looked at him steadily.
In this sort of grammatical constructions, she works as a subject of the sentence with active voice.
Now, consider a sentence which I read in The Hindu:
And as the nation heard and saw him, a sense of India's greatness stirred within it.
Now, in this sentence "a sense" is working as noun but the part "within it" is making this sentence passive unless there were "was" before "stirred". So, Is this sentence correct?
grammar
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And as he ate it, she looked at him steadily.
In this sort of grammatical constructions, she works as a subject of the sentence with active voice.
Now, consider a sentence which I read in The Hindu:
And as the nation heard and saw him, a sense of India's greatness stirred within it.
Now, in this sentence "a sense" is working as noun but the part "within it" is making this sentence passive unless there were "was" before "stirred". So, Is this sentence correct?
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What do you mean by "is this sentence correct"? In what sense?
– Jason Bassford
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What do you mean by "is this sentence correct"? In what sense?
– Jason Bassford
3 mins ago
What do you mean by "is this sentence correct"? In what sense?
– Jason Bassford
3 mins ago
What do you mean by "is this sentence correct"? In what sense?
– Jason Bassford
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