£ 1 million damages were awarded to a cyclist.
A cyclist was awarded £1 million damages.
Both sentences are passive, but one has £1 million damages as its subject, and the
other has a cyclist as its subject. The first report is about the damages, and it tells
us who received them. The second is about a cyclist, and it tells us what he received.
3 It is quite normal in English for the person receiving something to be the subject.
Here are some more examples.
The chairman was handed a note. I've been offered a job.
We were told all the details. The residents will be found new homes.
We can use these verbs in the passive pattern:
allow deny leave promise tell
ask feed lend refuse throw
award find offer send
bring give owe sell
buy grant pass show
charge hand pay teach
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