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The passive voice is a grammatical construction (a "voice") in which the subject of a sentence or clause denotes the recipient of the action (the patient) rather than the performer (the agent).
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Is it correct that only transitive verbs can have passive form?
I was taught that only transitive verbs can have passive form. But today, I met a person saying that intransitive verbs can also have passive form.
He gave 2 examples as follows.
A1: I speak to J …
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