I was being asked to write sentences in the passive voice, and one of the requirements was to use prepositions aside from "by" for the agent. Is that possible? Some examples would help. Thank you in advance.
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Best Answer
You can write sentences in passive voice without explicitly referring to the subject/agent. For example, 'the ball was rolled through the tube'.
I don't think there are any other words that explicitly ascribe agency to a subject the way the word 'by' does. Instead of writing, 'a goal was scored by the red team', you could write, 'a goal was scored for the red team' or 'a goal was scored due to the unrelenting tenacity of the red team' but the change in preposition fundamentally alters its meaning and shifts the agency of the sentence.