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What Does It Mean?: Intro 6 - B1 Passive Voice With Tenses

The document discusses the passive voice in English and how it is formed. It explains that the passive voice emphasizes the object and action of the sentence rather than the subject. While not a tense itself, each English tense has its own passive form using a form of "to be" plus the past participle of the main verb. Examples are provided of rewriting sentences in the passive voice, including those with two objects or impersonal constructions. [END SUMMARY]

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What Does It Mean?: Intro 6 - B1 Passive Voice With Tenses

The document discusses the passive voice in English and how it is formed. It explains that the passive voice emphasizes the object and action of the sentence rather than the subject. While not a tense itself, each English tense has its own passive form using a form of "to be" plus the past participle of the main verb. Examples are provided of rewriting sentences in the passive voice, including those with two objects or impersonal constructions. [END SUMMARY]

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Intro 6_B1

Passive voice with tenses


What does it mean?

“The passive voice is used when we want to emphasize the action (the verb) and the
object of a sentence rather than subject. This means that the subject is either less
important than the action itself or that we don’t know who or what the subject is. However,
when we know who the subject is, we put it at the end with by, we call this an agent. In
spite of having its own structure, the passive voice is not a tense in English, but each
tense has its own passive voice which is created by using a form of the auxiliary verb to
be + V3 (past participle).”
Practice

Fill in the gaps with the verbs in brackets in the correct passive voice form. Do
NOT use contracted forms.

1. I don’t like to be told (tell) what to do.


2. The hotel was closed because it were renovated(renovate)
3. I went to the doctor yesterday and I was being prescribed (prescribe) some
medicine for my cough.
4. My car isn’t fixed (not fix) yet, and I need it for tomorrow.
5. If she hadn’t insulted the police office, she wouldn’t be arrested (arrest).
6. She is hoping is being elected (elect) president.
7. Last night’s fire might be cuased (cause) by lightning.
8. Our house have being painted (paint) so we are staying at my parents’.
9. The museum is wil be visited (visit) by millions of people next year.
10. The suspect is being questioned (question) by the police at the moment.
11. Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928. (discover)
12. Statements are being taken from all the witnesses at this moment. (take)
13. Whales are must be protected by an international ban on whaling. (must
protect)
14. Both weddings had been catered by Good Taste. (cater)
15. A Picasso had been stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.(steal)
16. Is this washing machine to be made in Germany? (make)
17. Tea was grown in China. (grow)
18. When we reached the airport, we found that all the flights were canceled
due to the storm. (cancel)
19. The fax is not going to be sent until tomorrow morning. (not send)
20. The soundtrack of a movie have been always added after the filming is
finished. (add)

Passive Sentences with Two Objects

Rewriting an active sentence with two objects in passive voice means that one of
the two objects becomes the subject, the other one remains an object. Which
object to transform into a subject depends on what you want to put the focus on.
Personal and Impersonal Passive

Personal Passive simply means that the object of the active sentence becomes the
subject of the passive sentence. So every verb that needs an object (transitive
verb) can form a personal passive.

Example: They build houses. – Houses are built.

Impersonal Passive.  If you want to use an intransitive verb (verbs without an
object), in passive voice, you need an impersonal construction. This is only
possible with verbs of perception (e. g. say, think, know).

Example: he says – it is said

They say that women live longer than men. – It is said that women live longer than
men.

Taken: https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive

2. Create passive voice structure of the next sentences, taking into account two
objects and impersonal or personal passive

People know that she is a good swimmer.

They say that Francis is in hospital.

They think that the children are in bed.

→
People believe that the robber has worked in the bank.

People believe that nuclear power stations are dangerous.

Rachel will give you some advice.

I sent him a letter.

The police officer showed us the way.

Our neighbour gave me a lift.

We have asked him a favour.

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