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Various Structures Expressed in the Passive
A. The passive of continuous tenses requires the present continuous forms of to They are repairing the bridge. The bridge is being repaired. The gardener was watering the flowers. The flowers were being watered. Other continuous tenses are extremely rare in the passive, so the sentences They have/had been repairing the road or They will/would be repairing the road are not normally put into the passive.
B. After the future auxiliaries (will, be going to) and modal verbs we use passive They will open the new hotel next year. The new hotel will be opened… We are goingto paint this room. This room is going to be painted. The government can create more jobs. More jobs can be created. You should have told him. He should have been told.
C. Other infinitive combinations Verbs of liking/loving/wanting/wishing etc. + object + infinitive form He wants someone to take photos. He wants photos to be taken. With verbs of command/request/advice/ invitation indirect object + infinitive He invited me to go. I was invited to go. But with advise/beg/order/recommend/urge + indirect object + infinitive + He urged the Council to reduce the rates. The Council was/were urged to reduce the rates or He urged that the rates should be reduced. agree/be anxious/arrange/be detemined/determine/decide/demand He decided to sell the house. He decided that the house should be sold D. Gerund combinations are expressed in the passive by the passive I don’t like people telling me what to do. I don’t like being told what to do. advise/insist/propose/recommend/suggest + gerund + object are They insist on using credit cards.
Active Tenses and Their Passive Equivalents Tense/Verb form Active voice Passive voice ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simple present keeps is kept Present continuous is keeping is being kept Simple past kept was kept Past continuous was keeping was being kept Present perfect has kept has been kept Past perfect had kept had been kept Future will keep will be kept Conditional would keep would be kept Perfect conditional would have kept would have been kept Present infinitive to keep to be kept Perfect infinitive to have kept to have been kept Present participle/Gerund keeping being kept Perfect participle having kept having been kept --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Get in the Passive In colloquial speech get is sometimes used instead of be. We use get to The eggs got (=were) broken. How did the painting get damaged? But not The picture got painted several years ago. We also use get in idiomatic expressions, e.g. get washed (=wash oneself),
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