While watching a video of Stephen Jenkinson I was challenged by the declaration that grammatically 'die' cannot be used as a passive verb
.
Is it possible to use die
as a passive verb? Nothing I tried seems to make sense.
For example:
He was died. (incorrect grammar)
According to: grammar.ccc.commnet.edu
Verbs are also said to be either active (The executive committee approved the new policy) or passive (The new policy was approved by the executive committee) in voice.
In the active voice, the subject and verb relationship is
straightforward: the subject is a be-er or a do-er and the verb moves
the sentence along.
In the passive voice, the subject of the sentence is neither a do-er
or a be-er, but is acted upon by some other agent or by something
unnamed (The new policy was approved).
In reality, it seems like death is an agent that can act upon a living entity against its' will. A person might go through the dying process all the while fighting death. Finally, if the person is taken by death against their wishes; then we can't use the active voice
.
I suppose it could be said that "he has been taken by death". However, the verb die
seems unusable. In the scenario above, he was not the do-er or the be-er.
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