Learn English – Use ‘suggest’ passively

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How can I use passive voice to say this sentence with suggest? Is this grammatical:

These models are suggested to be phased out by us.

Best Answer

Your suggestion is a little ambiguous; are you suggesting or phasing out? The best way of phrasing it in the passive voice is It is suggested that these models be phased out.

But the passive voice itself is rather weak; it conceals the identity of the suggester (which may, of course, be your intention). Unless there is an overriding reason, you should use the active voice, either as zooone9243 suggests or We suggest the phasing out of these models.