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Post by Somak Meitei on Jan 25, 2018 19:47:08 GMT 5.5
" It is your duty to be corrected the mistakes" is a sentense that I found in a question paper of grammar test. It seems that the question setter uses it as a passive form and wants the students to change it into active. I don't think it sounds good. This passive form does not work. It's active form should be like "It is your duty to correct the mistakes" The passive form of this active form is not what is given because it is wrong to transforn the infinitive phrase " to correct the mistakes" into "to be corrected the mistakes". Is it normal that the object " the mistakes" is placed after the passive form "to be corrected"? The form " the mistakes to be corrected" is also wrong here in this case. "To correct the mistakes" should remain unchanged. If we wish to change it into passive, we can use " You are supposed to correct the..."
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Post by Thoithoi O'Cottage on Mar 22, 2018 13:58:07 GMT 5.5
This sentence is incorrect and unacceptable in any sense.
They can provide at least an acceptable (if not a wholesome) passive sentence if they want the students to give its active equivalent. Nothing excuses the ungrammaticality of that sentence in the question. That ungrammatical sentence would have been appropriate if the students were supposed to correct it, which is not the case.
Maybe, It is your duty for the mistakes to be corrected, which is rather laborious and unnecessarily so, is what the question setter attempted at.
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