I need help in passive of this sentence
Spain expected to win the world cup
My answer was
The world cup was expected to be won by Spain
but the book's answer is
it was expected by Spain to win the World cup
Why " to win" is not changed in passive in the book?
Best Answer
There are two very different possible meanings of this phrase:
If this is a newspaper headline — without a period at the end— it could mean
The “some people” could be experts, a majority of people in a survey, oddsmakers, and so on. The subject of the verb is unstated.
“Expected” here is used to mean “is expected” — headlines typically omit the verb “to be”.
If this is a complete sentence — with a period at the end— then it could mean
The sentences are talking about a past World Cup. (Maybe the most recent one, maybe a previous one. Maybe they won it, maybe they didn’t – but they had the expectation that they would be the winner.)
This is not the passive voice at all. It’s just the past tense. “Expected” here means the same as: