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Comment by Rasha on January 23, 2013 at 10:50

Thank you for your comment.

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Comment by Ryszard on January 22, 2013 at 12:10

Oi Rasza, 

             Good question, as using intransative verbs in the passive voice is a rather precarious business, all depending how it sounds in its final form.

            For instance your sentence can be written in the passive voice as follows:

            A travel the the USA has been undertaken by Jan to settle some urgent matters. 

          Although the sentence in the passive voice is grmmatically sound, it needs a lot of additional phrases + using a suitable main verb to make the sentence fully logical. 

         This kind of sentences are very rarely used in speech as they sound a bit awkward, so it is as a rule accepted that most intransative verbs should not be used in the passive voice.

          This is what I think of intransative verbs, perhaps other readers may have a better information on this issue and will be ready to share with us their knowledge.