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Jim Reynolds
Jim Reynolds
07:53
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Q: Passive Voice of this sentence

Abdul RashedThey have been cleaning. How to change it into passive voice. I got this question in paper and they have written that change it into passive voice. So help me to how to change it.

passive-voice
Proposed: It has been being done by them is felicitous!
 
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userr2684291
userr2684291
14:57
@JimReynolds Yep. That's what I thought first when I saw your answer a while ago (before the edit). I don't know if you could reduce it further to just By them has been being cleaned.
 
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tchrist
tchrist
16:09
@Catija @snailplane Hey do you guys have a canonical question for dealing with nonfinite clauses as the direct object or complement of a verb? The past we've had a string of questions about this, especially when the clause an oblique subject. Do you have some sort of tag for those questions? I'm struggling for a good tag name for it.
> They made Jane be nice to me.
All I need is for Jane to be nice to me.
Jane being nice to me was all I wanted.
The real goal here is Jane being nice to me.
For Jane to be nice to you, you're going to have to make some changes first.
nonfinite-clause-complementation is tediously long, and nobody will guess it.
This is one of the better answers:
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A: Non-finite clause complementation of complex transitive verbs

John LawlerQuirk et al is a good grammar but weak, I think, on complex sentences. What we're looking at in all of these examples is the remains of deceased clauses. Of the four sentences, two: I saw her leave the room I heard someone shouting are examples of special constructions that are limited to ...

What do you guys have for those sorts of things?
That sort of thing?
@JimReynolds How did you manage to convert your feather boa into a cravat?
I wonder if learner confusion in this area is because most non-finite verb clauses in English lack a subject, so those are the ones they see first.
And many of our cousin languages don’t allow it either.
Anonymous
16:42
@tchrist I can see your fledgling catenative-verbs tag has 4 questions :-)
tchrist
tchrist
heh
Well, I haven't gone a-hunting.
@snailplane Wait no, six!
Anonymous
Typing from my phone currently.
tchrist
tchrist
english.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/…
Ah.
ok
And now 7. :)
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A: Is it possible to have more than four consecutive verbs in a sentence?

tchristYes, it is possible: You should have dared go run help start trying to ask better questions. It’s called using catenative verbs. Don’t try this at home.

The other one that I just answered was
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A: "I hate Jill singing those songs." = "I hate Jill when she is singing those songs."?

tchristThe two following sentences are equivalent: I hate for Jill to sing those songs. I hate Jill singing those songs. The subject of both sentences is I. The verb of both sentences is the transitive verb hate. Both sentences use a non-finite verb clause as the direct object of hate, and both of ...

Which is quite like:
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A: "I have you returning the car."

tchristYes, we have such a structure, and yes, it is grammatically sound. It is not causative. Non-finite verb clauses with oblique subjects I have you returning the car on August 14th here at the airport. He has me returning the car on August 14th here at the airport. This is the same gr...

Which is why I noticed it, those having come in so close in time.
The whiz-deletion/participle analysis doesn’t seem right to me in these, because nobody hates Jill. :)
They just hate her singing the songs.

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