Clever boys were heard their lessons
 

-Clever boys were heard their lessons.

In this sentence, who delivers the lessons? Is it natural English nowadays?

Hi!

Not really....I don't really understand what you are trying to say.

Try again.

:thinking:

I agree with Elaina; it's not natural English, and I don't understand what you're trying to say.

"Clever boys were heard" makes sense as a passive-voice sentence = "Clever boys were heard [by someone]" = "[Someone] heard the boys".

But in your sentence "their lessons" doesn't make sense: there is no place for it in either the passive-voice sentence "clever boys were heard [by someone]" or the active-voice equivalent "[Someone] heard the boys", unless you use a preposition or some other connector to link it to the subject/agent ("[[by] Someone]"), the verb ("heard" or "were heard"), or the direct object/patient ("clever boys").

Do you want to try again?

Thank you~