[Grammar] active voice-passive voice

[Kana1919]

Hi there!

how to write following sentence in PASSIVE VOICE?.

1. I focus on money

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[charliedeut]

What do YOU think is the answer? Is this homework? If so, you are not likely to find any help around here, I'm afraid.

 

[Rover_KE]

How can I write the following sentence in the passive voice?

1. I focus on money.

Please note my amendments to your post.

We do not provide answers to students' homework assignments.

 

[teechar]

Of course you can write this sentence in the passive voice as "Money is focused on by me". However, it doesn't make sense to write this in the passive because the whole point of the passive is to promote the object over the subject, which is clearly not the case here !. In your sentence, the subject is more important than the object, so it makes sense to leave it in the active voice ;-).

 

[Kana1919]

No, not a homework. I just practise English myself. But, I can not convert that sentence. that is it. Actually, I am an university student. I know how to learn. but English is only the barrier which I try to overcome. Anyway, thank you for your valuable reply.

 

[Kana1919]

First of all, thank you for your valuable advice. But, one thing I want to say that I never think to waste my time to make me stupid.

 

[Tarheel]

No, not a homework.

Say:

It is not homework.

or

It is not a homework assignment.
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[MikeNewYork]

Kana, in what way are you making yourself stupid?

 

[emsr2d2]

As you were told in another thread, when you convert something into the passive (if you really must do so), you need to make sure that you are losing nothing from the original.

"I focus on money", when converted into the passive, needs to contain all of the same information. "Money is focused on" omits a very important part of the original. Can you see what is missing?

 

[Kana1919]

Thank you for clear explanation.

 

[emsr2d2]

If you understood my explanation, please tell us your new suggestion for the passive voice sentence.

 

[Matthew Wai]

an university student

I would use 'a' instead of 'an' because 'university' begins with a consonant sound 'yoo'.

Not a teacher.