Passive Voice: Special cases

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 SPECIAL CASES

Now pay attention to some passive cases, namely those that require the omission of the passive agent, and a change from subject pronoun to object pronoun.


1.    International designers introduce many clothing styles. 


Many clothing styles are introduced by international designers

 

2.  People appreciate comfortable clothes.

 

Comfortable clothes are appreciated by the people

3.  I wear cotton clothes.

 Cotton clothes are worn by me 

4.  They sell nice and cheap clothes in this shop.

 

Nice and cheap clothes are sold in the shop by them

5.  She buys fashion magazines.

 Fashion magazines are bought by her 

6.        Some      photographers      manipulate      models’

photographs.


Model's photographs are manipulated by some photographers

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