Passive

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PASSIVE

• Form: TO BE + PAST PARTICIPLE of the main verb

• Changing from the active sentence into the passive: The object of the active sentence becomes the subject in the passive sentence

• e.g. active: I tidy my flat every week.

passive: My flat is tidied every week.

• The subject of the active sentence becomes the agent, and is either omitted or introduced with the preposition by.

• e.g. I tidy my flat every week.

My flat is tidied every week.

• e.g. My husband tidies our flat every week.

Our flat is tidied by my husband every week.

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Passive in various forms

• Present Simple

The company employs three hundred people.

Three hundred people are employed by the company.

• Present Continuous

She is cleaning her flat at the moment.

Her flat is being cleaned at the moment.27. června 2012 4

• Past Simple

She cleaned her flat yesterday.

Her flat was cleaned yesterday.

• Past Continuous

She was cleaning her flat when we arrived.

Her flat was being cleaned when we arrived.

• Present Perfect Simple

I have just prepared my dinner.

My dinner has just been prepared.

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• Past Perfect Simple

He had written the reports.

The reports had been written.

• Will

He will write the reports.

The reports will be written.

• Future Perfect Simple

He will have finished the reports by midnight.

The reports will have been finished by midnight.

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• Modals

They may deliver the letter today.

The letter may be delivered today.

• Infinitive

I have to finish the report today.

The report has to be finished today.

• -ing form

He doesn´t like people pointing at him.

He doesn´t like being pointed at.

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Použité zdroje

• DOOLEY, Jenny a Virginia EVANS. Grammarway 3. Newbury: Express Publishing, 1999. 1st ed. ISBN 978-1-842-16-367-2. .

• MURPHY, Raymond. English Grammar in Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 2nd ed. ISBN 0521 43680 X.

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