[Grammar] Which of the following two sentences is right ?

[SUJANLONDON]

Which of the following two sentences is right ?
"It can't be happened".
"It can't happen".

 

[Matthew Wai]

The second one.

Not a teacher.

 

[Rover_KE]

SUJANLONDON, please note that a better title would have been It can't be happened/It can't happen.

Extract from the Posting Guidelines:

'Thread titles should include all or part of the word/phrase being discussed.'

 

[emsr2d2]

"To happen" is a regular verb. We do not use "to be happen" so your first sentence is not possible.

It happens.
It happens regularly.
It doesn't happen.
It can't happen.

"To be happening" means that something is in progress.

This atrocity is happening.
This atrocity was happening ...
This atrocity has been happening ...
This atrocity had been happening ...

 

[Barb_D]

It must have happened. It must not have happened.

It could have happened. It couldn't have happened.

 

[Matthew Wai]

"It can't be happened".

If you want the passive voice, you may say "It can't be caused by ...".

Not a teacher.

 

[MikeNewYork]

There is a difference between "happen" and "cause".

 

[SUJANLONDON]

How we can translate the first sentence into passive voice?

 

[MikeNewYork]

You can't. Only transitive verbs can exist in the passive voice.

 

[tzfujimino]

Hello.:-D
I agree with Mike.

I think what Matthew was trying to say (in post #6) was:

"X happened due to Y."
= "Y caused X."
= "X was caused by Y."

I also agree with Matthew on this.

 

[Matthew Wai]

Yes, I meant so.