Need help converting this sentence to passive voice:-
The students will assemble in the hall.
I think it should be:-
The hall will be assembled by the students.
But it sounds like students are building the hall by putting together some pieces.
Should I change it to assembled in by the students
? Or something else?
Answer
I in comments wrote to John Lawler:
What, you don’t like “The students will go downtown for lunch” becoming “Downtown will be gone to by the students for lunch” much, eh? :-) Because such abominations do crop up from not-native speakers from time to time, I suspect nobody ever let them in on the joke in the first place.
And then to the asker:
You can't ever do passive inversion on intransitive verbs, including both yours and mine. If what I wrote sounds right to you, somebody has trained you wrong because it’s completely ungrammatical in English. You must have a transitive verb with a direct object to use passive inversion on so that you can invert subject and object. Intransitive verbs lack an object to use for the subject.
Also, homework is a mass noun not a count noun, so you can never say *a homework.
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