[etni] Fw: passive voice - results

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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:07:48 +0200
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From: devori avramovich - devoriavramovich@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: passive voice - results


here are the different responses i've received
(if anyone is interested in the passive WS it was quoted from please tell 
me):

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(Original message:

which of the following sentences is more accurate:

(1)  "the castle was restored and in 2003 it opened as a hotel"
    or
(2)  "the castle was restored and in 2003 it was opened as a hotel"
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Responses:

The Hotel can't open itself therefore it must be the second one. It was
restored and was opened.
 Regards,
Ingride
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Hi
It seems to me that both are correct but preferably without the "it"
Barry
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I would say:
The castle was restored and opened as a hotel in 2003.
Best regards
Judith
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Hi Devori,
I'd say you could use either.
Laurie
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I'd say sentence 2 because the hotel didn't open itself.  However, I don't 
think that sentence 1 is incorrect so it probably doesn't make much of a 
difference
Michele
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I believe both are accurate. In the first sentence it says that it opened
as a hotel and in the second sentence it implies that it didn't open as a
castle but as a hotel...
Both would be similarly accurate, in my mind...
 Miriam Greif
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I feel the second sentence is correct. I am not an expert, though, but it 
certainly sounds better!
Linda Kuras Mizrahi
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I think that no 1 sounds more normal but leave out the 'it" and put the time
phrase last.
The castle was restored and opened as a hotel in 2003.

No 2 "the castle was restored and in 2003 it was opened as a hotel "-
this sentence might be grammatically correct but it is very very heavy and
again, the time phrase might sound better in the end.

BTW when you use AND or BUT and the same tense you do not repreat the
subject (even as a pronoun) and the first word of a two-word verb. You
repeat the verb when the subject is changed and by putting in the time
phrase you somehow broke the connection.

The castle was restored and opened as a hotel.
The children were playing in the garden and shouting loudly.
I am sitting at the computer and thinking about grammatical problems!
Best wishes
fay


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