Thank you for your opinion.
T_H_Lawrence:
“He live.”
- Is this sentence complete in sense?
“May you live long.” - What is the part of speech of the underlined part? Is it adverb?
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It may be complete in sense, but not grammatical. The subject-verb concord has not taken place. The correct version should, therefore, be “He lives”.
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The word ‘long’ can function as both adjective and adverb. Here it is an adverb (of time).
Ten children is to be divided in tho two group.
I think here subject is not performing the action of verb.
Am I correct? If i am correct then can we call it passive form?
Congratulations! I think that you have done a great job. Yes, that is a passive sentence.
I just have one little suggestion. I feel that your sentence needs the word “going”:
The ten children are GOING to be divided into two groups.
Why? Because I think that this passive sentence comes from an active sentence something like:
The teachers are GOING to divide the children into two groups.
“The ten children are to be divided into two groups” might come from “The teachers are to divide the children into two groups.” That is like an order or command. I do not think that is the meaning that you wish to give.
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First, please post your sentence properly and correctly.
Your sentence “Ten children [color=red]is to be divided in [color=red]tho two [color=red]group.” is unacceptable.
It should have been : The ten children are to be divided into two groups.
This is a sentence in the passive voice where the object (The ten children) functions as the subject but does not perform the activity. Whether a sentence is passive or active is determined by the form/structure of the transitive verb used in it. See below how a sample verb (speak) changes into its various passive constructions, and note the forms in which they appear; or, compare active forms and their corresponding passive forms meticulously.
ACTIVE VOICE > PASSIVE VOICE
speak/speaks > is/are/am spoken
is/are/am speaking > is/am/are being spoken
has/have spoken > has/have been spoken
spoke > was/were spoken
was/were speaking > was/were being spoken
had spoken > had been spoken
will speak > will be spoken
will have spoken > will have been spoken
I beg apology to all for posting a wrong sentence.
T_H_Lawrence:
you showed many form of changing active voice into passive. But I just don’t understand which form is acting in my sentence. And what will be the sentence if I turn it into active voice.
IMHO,
You do NOT have to apologize.
That is why this website exists: so that learners can ask questions, and people who MAYBE know some English can comment on the learners’ “mistakes.”
We are ALL learning together. And you are doing very well.
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Yes, 'are to divide, ‘going to divide’ etc constructions will also change like ‘will speak’: that is, are to be divided, going to be divided etc.
If you want to turn it into active voice, it will appear thus: “Someone is/They are to divide the ten children into two groups”.
By the way, I would deem it the moral duty of the people who, MAYBE, know some English to comment on the learners’ “mistakes.” Unless errors are corrected, how can a discerning learner learn the language?
It means like “will speak> will be spoken,speak/speaks> is/are/am spoken etc”
'are to divide>are to be divided and ‘going to divide’>going to be divided are also two forms?
- Children are to divide three group.(here children are dividing them-self.) correct?
- Children are to be divide into three group( here some one is dividing the children into three group) correct?
- You need to say ‘…into three groups’
- You need to use ‘divided’, not ‘divide’.
Three are to be hardware items selected.
Is the above sentence like the following?
Tree hardware items are to be selected.
‘Three are to be hardware items selected’ does not make sense.
I would phone her, If I had her number.
Underlined part is present imagination or past imagination, what?
The other types are:
(Type I) - I will phone her, if I have her number. [Real for all times]
(Type III) - I would have phoned her, if I had had her number. [Unrealized past]
T_H_Lawrence:
I would phone her, If I had her number.
Is the underlined part unrealistic present?
YES, I suppose so. We may not use it to mean the present or future.
I don’t know about the term ‘unrealistic present’ but I would say that ‘would’ is a conditional.
Did you find the example on this page?
learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/ … l-or-would
Quote:
in conditionals with words like if and what if. In these sentences the main verb is usually in the past tense:
I would give her a call if I could find her number.
If I had the money I’d buy a new car.
You would lose weight if you took more exercise.
If he got a new job he would probably make more money.
What if he lost his job. What would happen then?
Thank you, Bev.
However, “I would give her a call if I could find her number” would better be: I would give her a call if I found her number.
Usually no two modals appear in such sentences.