I live in the city. Can you give the passive form of it?
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Hello, Ramy. Passive voice is possible only for transitive verbs. For example love, like, eat and so on. We can not use passive voice for intransitive verbs live go, come, live and die and so on. Hope this answers your question.
I live by that city.
He lived in the city.
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- Marina
From the vast majority of answers it is clear that we can not use a passive form here. However, you could restructure your sentence and use a different verb with much the same meaning as 'live'. For example; The city is inhabited by me.
The passive voice is used when the focus is on the action being performed, rather than the person or thing performing the action. In this case, the focus is on the city, not on the person who lives there.
- Danilo DjordjevicInstructor of English, Level B2
You can not use passive voice in this sentence because passive is only possible with transitive verbs. Passive voice is when the subject of the sentence is acted on by the verb ("The Tree was hitten by the thunder") , so, passive voice is not a suitable in this example.
"to live" can only be passive when we use the rae transitive sense, e.g. " They lived their last days with indifference." "Their last days were lived with indifference" "To live " has a common object which is "life" and it can be in the passive form with this object, e.g. Everyone's life should be lived in dignity. Or we can use prepositions to change it into passive, e.g. This city looks as it has been lived in." , But generally the verb "to love " isn't used in passive voice.
It can't be done as "live" is an intransitive verb.
Hey Ramy, It's not possible to use passive voice in this sentence as the verb is transitive which means there is no object here
Can't we use live as transitive verb?
I agree with Max. This sentence should stay in active form. It doesn't work in passive form. Another example could be: British people eat a lot of potatoes - active A lot of potatoes are eaten (in the UK / by British people) - passive PASSIVE FORM: object + be + past participle Sentences in English are usually in active form. We only use the passive form when it's necessary, in certain cases (and only when there is a direct object): - we don't know who performed an action - the action is more important than who did it (subject) or the subject is obvious - to be more formal or polite / indirect (less accusatory) E.g. A mistake was made (passive). You made a mistake (active).
