Timeline for Changing the passive infinitive into the active voice
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| Nov 22, 2018 at 23:16 | comment | added | Gary Botnovcan | So, not a typo but merely a dialect foreign to me. Thanks for confirming that. | |
| Nov 22, 2018 at 21:00 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | If you are an EU or EEA national and have been accepted on a course, you are entitled to enter the UK freely and.... University of Worcester. There's an old EL&U question about which preposition to use, but no one mentions "on" nor "for" which is interesting in itself. “Be accepted to” vs. “be accepted onto” but "into" sounds best to my ears. | |
| Nov 22, 2018 at 20:51 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | I read it as: [be] [accepted] [on a course], and I don't think the author(s) committed a typo, although when I first read your answer I did rush to doublecheck. I suspect it's another BrEng vs AmEng difference, I could check online... and yes, here it is How long after applying will I have to wait to be accepted on a course?. The website is home to Sussex Recovery College. | |
| Nov 22, 2018 at 19:43 | comment | added | Gary Botnovcan | I wouldn't argue against your agency-related preferences. You might notice that I granted agency to the school twice and even labeled that choice as more likely. I might argue against the appropriateness of the preposition "on". "Into" and "for" seem more natural, and "by" is at least plausible. Does the use of "on" look like a typo to you? | |
| Nov 22, 2018 at 19:01 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Upvoted because it has helped me see how to approach this task but I am slightly confused by your 2nd solution, can a course accept a candidate? James wanted to join the course and applied. You apply to the organisation that runs the course, not to the course itself. I suppose course acts like a synecdoche, but I think I'd prefer "school", "board" or maybe even "panel". | |
| Nov 22, 2018 at 18:19 | history | answered | Gary Botnovcan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |