Is “to be amazed” passive in nature?
I’m trying to find a way to write a sentence with active language where a character is amazed by something without making the subject the subject of the sentence. Adam opened
the door and was amazed to see Sarah. How
can I craft this sentence where Adam amazes? If Adam amazes then he’s the one doing amazing and Sarah would be amazed, too. I’m trying to find a way for Adam to be the one who is amazed but I can use a different word in the active voice.
“Adam opens the doors and X to see Sarah,”
Where X is the word I’m looking for. Help!
How is the world going to be if I don’t get to come out and have to fight all the causes of this disaster?
If I could put anybody in the lead or never actually watch the action, then Sarah would just look like that.
When Adam opened the door the sight of Sarah was overwhelming.
Don’t you think he was weird when
he opened the door?
Why is such a structure not known in English? If Adam is the subject of the sentence, you need a passive construction to capture the effect of something else on
him. No more words of this construction are useless there.
Why is such a structure not known in English? If Adam is the subject of the sentence, you need a passive construction to capture the effect of something else on
him. No more words of this construction are useless there.
A few options:
gapes, goggles, drops his jaw, gawks, stops dead in his tracks, boggles, staggers. If anyone has ever had to go through these four bungles, there is one available.
Not all of them are exact drop-in replacesments for X, but can all be active verbs. Adam
closes the door and (gas/goggles) visits Sarah.
Adam opens the door and (drops his jaw) after seeing Sarah standing there.
If Adam opens the door, only to stare
slack-jawed at Sarah, who is standing there waiting with an air of impending doom hovering around her, think / say “The good / the bad”?
Whats your opinion on the topic of immigration?
A few options:
gapes, goggles, drops his jaw, gawks, stops dead in his tracks, boggles, staggers. If anyone has ever had to go through these four bungles, there is one available.
Not all of them are exact drop-in replacesments for X, but can all be active verbs. Adam
closes the door and (gas/goggles) visits Sarah.
Adam opens the door and (drops his jaw) after seeing Sarah standing there.
If Adam opens the door, only to stare
slack-jawed at Sarah, who is standing there waiting with an air of impending doom hovering around her, think / say “The good / the bad”?
Whats your opinion on the topic of immigration?
