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Thu 3 Aug, 2017 06:37 pm
I am in big trouble. I teach English in middle school and while going through Voice, there was this sentence and I was asked to change into passive.
" I want to be a doctor."
First ,I thought it can't have a passive form. Later, I realised 'doctor' is an object so it must have a passive translation.
What's the answer? Help me out!
@Rashmii Lim,
A doctor is what I want to be.
A doctor is what I want for my profession.
A doctor is what I would like to become.
"Doctor" is not the object.
The infinitive phrase "to be a doctor" is the object.
Putting the sentence into passive mode results in the rather silly-sounding:
To be a doctor is wanted by me.
@George,
George wrote:
"Doctor" is not the object.
The infinitive phrase "to be a doctor" is the object.
Putting the sentence into passive mode results in the rather silly-sounding:
To be a doctor is wanted by me.
To become a doctor is something that is being looked at in my mind.
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