I've been lived IN hear for ages

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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HI
Can we use passive form with INTRANSITIVE verbs??? for me I think we can, but we have to use a preposition like :
1)I’ve been lived IN hear for ages
2)she’s been arrived AT airplane at 6:00 P.M
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PLEASE give every details, why yes?? OR why no??

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Hi,

In order to create a passive sentence you have to have a verb+subject+ object and so it isn’t possible to use an intransitive verb form. Sometimes the subject or agent is not actually mentioned. An example would be: This house was built in 1234 but the ‘agent’ has to be understood as ‘a builder’ ‘some builders’ or whatever. The active sentence would be: A builder (subject) built (transitive verb) this house (object) in 1234. Both (1) and (2) in your message do not make sense.

Alan

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Hi Alan
For the first sentence,If we want to say it in passive form, we must say : " I have been made to live here ages" ?

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Thanks Alan but I think In general, intransitive verbs can not be used in the passive voice, with one exception. When a prepositional phrase follows, it is possible:

He looked at me <-> I was looked at by him.
He might have looked at me <-> I might have been looked at by him.

I lived in a house <-> A house was lived in by me.

Note that you need the prepositions at and in here. These sentences are very uncommon.

WHAT DO YOU THINK Alan???

Regards
Hosseini

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Hi,

Please don’t confuse the issue.

If you create a verb + a particle such as ‘look at’, it no longer functions in an intransitive form because it is then followed by an object. Let’s be clear about this: If a verb is used intransitively, it does not have an object and it cannot be used in a passive construction.

These sentences (the ones you have written) are not ‘very uncommon’ - that has nothing to do with the passive form.

Alan

Alan

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Hi,

You are wrong here. You have created an entirely different construction and made a passive form out of ‘make’ - that has nothing to do with the sentence quoted above.

Alan

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Thanks a million Alan but just a question let’s just think out of rules , construction and blah blah

  1. Do you think those sentences are right and common??

  2. “look at” OR any intransitive verbs with right preposition are no longer intransitive??

Regards
Hosseini

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AND what about those complicated situation like :

  1. I was born here.
  2. the earth quack was happened on Saturday
    and another question …is it common to say “my mother born me”??

Regards
Hosseini

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Thank you Alan

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HI Alan
is there any chance that you could answer my question??

Regards
Hosseini

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Hi,

Two points:

‘Was happened’ is not English. The verb is ‘bear infinitive) - bore (past simple) - born (past participle)’. The sentence: My mother born me’ is not English.

Alan