Manish Chaturvedi Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Hi , In the question below the correct answer is A , what I want to know is that is it the Voice(Active/Passive) which makes A correct in place of B or is there more to this. 6. The new contract forbids a strike by the transportation union. (A) forbids a strike by the transportation union (Active Voice) (B) forbids the transportation union from striking (Passive Voice) © forbids that there be a strike by the transportation union (D) will forbid the transportation union from striking (E) will forbid that the transportation union strikes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
800Bob Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 B is not passive. Passive is a form of the verb "be" followed by a past participle, as in: "strikes are forbidden." B is wrong because "forbid from + gerund" is unidiomatic. The correct idiom is "forbid + infinitive." By the way, passive is not necessarily wrong. I have seen scores of SC items in which the correct answer is passive and at least one of the incorrect answers is active. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarsAlien Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 had they used "prohibit from", B would have been correct, because that is the correct idiom in this context. is that correct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jay711 Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 The idiom is forbid X to Y. "forbid X from Y" is unidiomatic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N750 Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 Thanks Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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