In the passage, how are the narrator's and the narrator's parents points of view towards the tree different?
A The narrator is amazed by the tree but his or her
parents quietly reflect on it
B. The narrator and their parents are distracted by
different aspects of the property, not the tree.
The narrator is indifferent toward the tree while
their parents are overwhelmed by it
replaced many aspects
(D) The narrator cannot convince their parents of the
tree's importance
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i'm unsure whether this sentence is active or passive voice.

    i want to be there when the final match is played at wimbledon.

when we marked it, the teacher said that it was passive voice, but isn't the subject ("i") doing the action, which makes it active? can someone explain?

passive-voice

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    it's not the matrix clause that is passive, but just the subordinate clause functioning as complement of "when", i.e. the final match is played at wimbledon. it's a 'short passive' in that there is no internalised complement (by phrase). the subject of the subordinate passive clause is "the final match". "i" is subject of the matrix clause. – billj jun 13 '17 at 15: 29

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