What is heavy rain in passive form?
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Answer:
An intransitive sentence cannot have a passive voice. It has an action verb but does not have a direct object. There are three ways to figure out if this sentence is intransitive.
1. Is the verb followed by a What or Who:
Ask yourself “it was raining what or who?” If there is no answer then there is no direct object. The sentence cannot have a passive voice.
2. Weather action verb:
Is the action in the sentence (the verb) some form of weather? If it is, the sentence does not have a passive voice.
3. Move the subject:
Does the sentence make sense if the subject follows the verb? “Jane ate the bread” becomes “The bread was eaten by Jane.“ That is the passive voice. If not, the sentence is probably intransitive. In your sentence there is no object to switch with the subject “It” so trying to put the ‘it’ after the verb makes no sense. “? was raining it heavily yesterday.”
It = subject
was raining = intransitive verb
heavily = adverb (describes how it was raining)
Yesterday = adverb (describes when it was raining)