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Sunday, May 11, 2008

0002: ENGLISH :Passive Voice-1

Practice is the solid foundation for developing Grammar in habit. We need to practice Passive Voice directly.

Affirmative Sentences:

Simple Present : The match is played.
Simple Past : The match was played.
Future : The match will be played.

Present Continuous: The match is being played.
Past Continuous : The match was being played.

Present Perfect : The match has been played.
Past Perfect : The match had been played.
Future Perfect : The match will have been played.

Negative:

The work is not done.
The work was not done.
The work will not be done.

The work is not being done.
The work was not being done.

The work has not been done.
The work had not been done.
The work will not have been done.

Pronoun - it -can also be used for- the work.

It is done.
It was done.
It will be done.

It is being done.
It was being done.

It has been done.
It had been done.
It will have been done.


One more example:


You are invited.
You were invited.
You will be invited.

You are being invited.
You were being invited.

You have been invited.
You had been invited.
You will have been invited.


Learn to use -Suppose in the Passive:


Suppose in the passive can be followed by the present infinitive of any verb but this construction usually conveys an idea of duty and is not therefore the normal equivalent of suppose in the active:

You are supposed to know how to drive =
It is your duty to know / You should know how to drive.

Though He is supposed to be in Paris could mean either' He ought to be there' or ' People suppose he is there'.

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