TABLE OF PASSIVE VOICE
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 554.
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THE PASSIVE VOICE
GRAMMAR REVIEW.
Compare two sentences: We write dictations every week (Active Voice). Dictations are written every week. (Passive Voice).
Passive Voice is used to show what's happening with a human being or thing;Active Voice – what a human being or thing is doing.
e.g. 1. Captain Cook discovered Australia in 1770.
Australia was discovered by Captain Cook in 1770.
2. The teacher asks me every lesson.
I am asked every lesson by the teacher.
Passive Voice is formed by means of the auxiliary verb ‘to be' & Past Participle of the notional verb: to be + V3
We use the preposition ‘by' to show who performs the action & the preposition ‘with' to show the way it is performed.
e.g. Australia was discovered by Captain Cook.
The letter was written with a pen.
| Simple проста, звичайна, регулярна дія | Continuous дія відбувається у певний момент | Perfect завершена дія | Perfect Continuous дія продовжується вже певний час | |
| Present теперішній | am is + V3 are | am is being + V3 are | have been + V3 has | ___ |
| Past минулий | was + V3 were | was being + V3 were | had been + V3 | ___ |
| Future майбутній | will be + V3 | ___ | will have been + V3 | ___ |
| 1. I like to be invited to the parties. | 7. The environment has already been damaged. |
| 2 The environment is damaged by the people. | 8. The school had been built by the 1-st of September. |
| 3. The school was built last month. | 9. The book will have been read by tomorrow. |
| 4. The meeting will be held tonight. | 10. The cathedral can be seen from anywhere in the city. |
| 5. I am being asked at the moment. | 11. The poem must be learnt by all means. |
| 6. The film was being shown yesterday at 10. | 12. The rules of behaviour should be observed. |
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| SPECIALIST READING | | | Active Voice |