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by pops » Wed Apr 07, 2010 2:36 am
Incorrect: A venomous snake designated the emblem of the rebellion by the insurgency.

Correct: venomous snake was designated the emblem of the rebellion by the insurgency.

Reason for explaining the correction is that original is a fragmant with designated as past participle, add form of the verb 'to be' to fix it) I am not clear with it. Please help.
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by akhpad » Wed Apr 07, 2010 4:21 am
I believe it is a passive sentence.

"was designated" is correct.

Verbs of form "to be" are is am are was were etc
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by pops » Wed Apr 07, 2010 9:38 pm
are you sure its a passive sentence? How do you identify ?

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by rockeyb » Thu Apr 08, 2010 12:14 am
pops wrote:Incorrect: A venomous snake designated the emblem of the rebellion by the insurgency.

Correct: venomous snake was designated the emblem of the rebellion by the insurgency.

Reason for explaining the correction is that original is a fragmant with designated as past participle, add form of the verb 'to be' to fix it) I am not clear with it. Please help.
DESIGNATED = is the past participle form of the verb DESIGNATE .

A Past particle is formed by adding - en OR - ed to the verb .

TO BE form of the verb + past participle forms the passive voice .

Hence the sentence here is in passive voice which is correct .

To Be form of verb are IS , WAS , ARE etc .
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by kevincanspain » Thu Apr 08, 2010 12:21 am
pops wrote:are you sure its a passive sentence? How do you identify ?

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Replace the verb 'designate' with 'name' and see whether the active voice could be used
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by kstv » Thu Apr 08, 2010 12:31 am
A venomous snake designated the emblem of the rebellion by the insurgency.
does it not appears that the snake did all the designing not the insurgents ?
without even a punctuation it seems like that, till it is corrected by
venomous snake was designated the emblem of the rebellion by the insurgency.

PS either ways it is the devil's work.
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by rockeyb » Thu Apr 08, 2010 12:33 am
Hey kstv ,

Havent seen you in a while , good to see u back .
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by kstv » Thu Apr 08, 2010 6:01 am
rockeyb wrote:Hey kstv ,

Havent seen you in a while , good to see u back .
Hi, good to hear from u.
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by pops » Thu Apr 08, 2010 10:14 pm
kstv wrote:A venomous snake designated the emblem of the rebellion by the insurgency.
does it not appears that the snake did all the designing not the insurgents ?
without even a punctuation it seems like that, till it is corrected by
venomous snake was designated the emblem of the rebellion by the insurgency.

PS either ways it is the devil's work.
thanks a lot !! understood :)
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