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Should "Your site has queued." be "Your site has been queued."?


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I think "queue" could arguably be used as a verb.


Both of the OP's examples are verb uses of "queue". I believe the question here is whether to use active or passive voice.

IMO the passive construction ("has been queued") sounds more natural, because you wouldn't normally think of an inanimate object like a website queuing itself in a line. But it could go either way, as "queue" technically can act as either a transitive or an intransitive verb.




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