the rose is sweet when (it is) smelt.
"taste" here is intransitive-- it is not active and you can not change it to passive. -- "taste" here means " has the taste" of - the is honey is not doing any tasting. If we change the sentence to; The bear tastes the honey, passive form would be The honey is tasted by the bear.
Quasi means seemingly or looking almost like. That is, a verb is called quasi-passive when its use almost looks like passive but actually it is active in syntactic and semantic structure. Examples : Rice sells cheap, meaning rice is cheap when it is sold. Honey tastes sweet, meaning honey is sweet when it is tasted. Their surface structure operates on one level which is apparently passive, but their meaning emerges from the deep structure which is actually active in function. I think the significance of quasi-passive verb will come out if we interpret the linguistic phenomenon and make distinction in this way.
My last car was a real lemon. The lemon tree is very pretty and it's flower smells so sweet. But alas! The fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
The word 'sweet' is an adjective or a noun, depending on use: Adjective: Would you like sweet tea with your sweet cake? Noun: No thank you, my sweet, I prefer coffee with a sweet.
You would make your sentence into a question.Example of a declarative sentence:It is a cloudy day.Example of an interrogative sentence:Is it a cloudy day?
This sentence cannot be changed into passive
"taste" here is intransitive-- it is not active and you can not change it to passive. -- "taste" here means " has the taste" of - the is honey is not doing any tasting. If we change the sentence to; The bear tastes the honey, passive form would be The honey is tasted by the bear.
Mangoes are sweet when they are tasted.
it has a sweet smell!!
beans
a rose that smells just as sweet shekspear
Slightly sweet with chemical overtones.
yes, they do
It can be sweet but it still smells awful.
Quasi means seemingly or looking almost like. That is, a verb is called quasi-passive when its use almost looks like passive but actually it is active in syntactic and semantic structure. Examples : Rice sells cheap, meaning rice is cheap when it is sold. Honey tastes sweet, meaning honey is sweet when it is tasted. Their surface structure operates on one level which is apparently passive, but their meaning emerges from the deep structure which is actually active in function. I think the significance of quasi-passive verb will come out if we interpret the linguistic phenomenon and make distinction in this way.
Rotten fruit or spoiled milk can have a sweet smell but taste sour when consumed.
Anti-freeze is leaking in to or on to hot engine.