We decided to leave early

Question

We decided to leave early. How to change this into passive form?

Are they ?

We decided that we should leave early. Or We decided early should be left. Please help me teachers.

One can try to form a passive voice sentence like this: "To leave early was decided by us". Awkward, though... — Victor Bazarov, Aug 14 '15 at 18:47
Sir, what about this? It was decided that we should leave early. — I don't know who I am., Aug 14 '15 at 18:53
Neither of them are passive, they are obviously active past tenses ! — Cardinal, Aug 14 '15 at 19:13
Cardinal sir, How would you like to change this into passive? Please share your fruitful views. — I don't know who I am., Aug 14 '15 at 19:24
Is this part of your homework? Why are you trying to make this passive? — Catija, Aug 14 '15 at 19:54
A fruitful view is to question the question: What grammar book is this exercise from? Why does the book include this question? What is the point of the exercise? -- If the book doesn't make it clear, there would be no point in pursing this, and this would become a pointless question. — Damkerng T., Sep 27 '15 at 22:25

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 15 '19 at 09:13

The (simplified) sentence structures of active and passive voices are:

subject + activeVoiceVerb + object

(I drink water.)

and

object + passiveVoiceVerb + subject

(Water is drunk by me.)

If we apply the rule to the original sentence:

We decided to leave early.

we have:

Therefore, the passive voice will look like:

To leave early was decided by us.

However, this sounds quite unnatural to me, and therefore I do not recommend its use.

score -1 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 27 '15 at 19:59

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My best guess is that "an early leave was made". But if you want to go with the same subject, it is pretty much impossible.

edited Sep 27 '15 at 19:59

answered Aug 15 '15 at 00:09

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