![]() ![]() "Aim at" here is passive voice, or we have: " sb aim sth at sth"). (The government aims the campaign at influencing public opinion. (The talks themselves intend to achieve the compromise, active voice, or we have: " sb/sth aim at sth"ī) The government's campaign is aimed at influencing public opinion. In this aspect, "aim at" is both transitive and intransitive verb.Įx: a) The talks are aiming at a compromise. We do not care much about this meaning.Ģ) Aim at STH: to plan, hope, or intend to achieve sth have the intention of achieving sth ( STH here is a noun, noun phrase, V-ing). + The right sentence HAS TO BE: The project, aiming to reduce the unemployment rate, is a failure ( = The project, which aims to reduce the unemployment rate, is a failure)ġ) Aim (sth) at (sb/sth): point or direct sth towards. ![]() + "Which is aimed to" is WRONG because "aim to", with the meaning of "intend to", is an intransitive verb, CANNOT be in passive voice. + The original for this wrong sentence is: The project, which is aimed to reduce the unemployment rate, is a failure. + WRONG: "aimed to" is a past participle in reduced form. ( RIGHT: "aimed to" is in simple past tense, active form).ī) The project, aimed to reduce the unemployment rate, is a failure Therefore, any sentence that reduces "aim to" in the form of past participle is WRONG because with the active form, when reduced, it should be "aiming to", not "aimed to"Įx: a) I aimed to be a teacher when I was a boy. Or we can understand that "Aim to" CANNOT be used in PASSIVE VOICE. Thus, we say: " SB/STH aims to + Inf"Įx: a) I aim to be a millionaire by the time I'm 35.ī) They are aiming to reduce unemployment by 50%. Note: "Aim to" is an intransitive verb, which does NOT take a direct object. The following examples are accumulated from Cambridge dictionary ( ) and Oxford dictionary ( ) I would like to clarify more about the ACTIVE AND PASSIVE voice of these words, which, IMO, are the crucial points here. WRONG: We adopted new policies WITH THE AIM TO REDUCE theft.įor difference in meaning between "aim at" and "aim to", Chetan clarifies well enough. RIGHT: We adopted new procedures AIMED AT REDUCING/ WITH THE AIM OF REDUCING theft. It is based on the meaning and frequency of the idioms that one should care about, not the wordy interpretation because that is subjective and in some cases does not help one to have the true answer.īack to the word "aim", in Manhattan Sentence Correction, 4th edition, page 143, we have: ![]()
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