What is the passive form of sentence?

What is the passive form of such sentences; I

  • enjoy watching TV. I
  • don’t like playing football.

Could

  • someone just tell me I don’t want to play football?
  • I want to drink tea. What are some good ways to do it?

In normal sentences usually, you simply move the object to the subject of the passive sentence and then you use the passive form of the verb ( eg: I love a => guy => I love him ) but in this case, I have no idea.

Asked on February 27, 2021 in Other.
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My passive form would be like these:

TV watching is enjoyable.
Football is still played by people, but not like…

What sound are unusual in that they sound so stupid that, outside of a mental exercise, nobody would ever actually use them.


A passive character is added when it is written in a sentence. If a similar sort of translation might be made, it would not be

exact.)

Answered on February 27, 2021.
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Note: Ok, so you don’t want to make the gerund/infinitive passive, you just want to make the sentence passive. I’ve got it. I’m on my way.

I mean passive voice sounds awkward for me, and it would not normally be something a native speaker would say. What should I do, if I am determined to do so? Invert subject and object, and change the verb to passive Watching

TV is enjoyed by me.

Football is for me. I have no interest in football. I enjoy playing football.

I know football is not my favorite sport. But to play football is.

If I live in India, drink tea is not wanted/desired. I don’t know why people drink tea, tea is not necessary.

They are all very unusual. In general, we don’t use the passive voice for verbs of emotion or perception such as want, like, desire, think, enjoy, etc. But there are exceptions. — is there someone who wrote this? What kind of sentence sounds fine in a formal context?


Original answer, for general interest

“Being watched” is the passive of “watching” and “being played” is the passive of “playing”, but neither really works in this context. With verbs like “enjoy” or “like”, you would need an activity where you are the object of the gerund. I enjoy

someone else cooking for me I enjoy being cooked (by someone) I enjoy someone

else singing to me I enjoy being sung to (by someone) I enjoy someone

else’s sung to me It’s not like a cooking for myself, it’s like another person singing to me I enjoy being sung to (by someone) I like someone else singing to me or sung to me I enjoy being sung (by someone) and I can’t

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