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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Active to Passive

passive of "It is raining"
  

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There is no passive of intransitive verbs.

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There is no passive of intransitive verbs.
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But this is possible:

I'm being rained on_. (from: It _is raining on me.)

I have a (tangentially) related question: How can one explain the construction "We are gathered_ together in His name."? Is this a remnant of an older construction for "We _have gathered together...", or does it arise in some other way from "We have been gathered together (by Him)" =>