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1.8. The use of tenses in the passive voice

FORMATION

The Passive voice is formed with the help of the auxiliary be in the appropriate form and the Past Participle of the main verb (see Table 13).

Tense

Structure

Example

Present Simple

am/are/is + Past Participle

English is spoken here.

Past Simple

was/were + Past Participle

His leg was hurt in an accident.

Future Simple

shall/will + Past Participle

The matter will be discussed tomorrow.

Present Cont.

am/are/is being + Past Participle

She is being interviewed now.

Past Continuous

was/were being + Past Participle

I felt I was being watched.

Present Perfect

have/has been + Past Participle

My brother has never been beaten in tennis.

Past Perfect

had been + Past Participle

The bridge had been built by winter time.

Future Perfect

will have been + Past Participle

Everything will have been done by Tuesday.

Note 1: Future Continuous Passive (will be being + Past Participle) and Perfect Continuous Passive (have been being + Past Participle, etc.) are unusual and are not normally used. Note 2: Passive Infinitives are used with 'to' or without 'to' in the same way as Active Infinitives: e.g.

The pupils must be warned about the change in the time-table. The letter doesn 't have to be sent

tomorrow.

USAGE

The use of the verb-tenses in the passive voice is determined by the same principles as in the active voice. Yet a passive construction is not merely a transformation of the active one. It is made to show that the subject of a sentence is not the

doer of the action but the receiver of it. Hence the passive

voice has its own uses marked by the shift of focus from the doer of the action to the action itself which is typical of more formal speech.

Customers are requested to ask for a receipt. When were you told about the new rules? The floor is filthy. It must be scrubbed.

PRACTICE

I. Open the brackets using the appropriate passive forms.

1. The Tower of London formerly (use) as a prison.

2. Progress (make) every day in the world of science.

3. He saw that the table (push) into the corner.

4. Empty bottles must (throw away), the sooner the better.

5. Photographs (take) after the ceremony.

6. I never (speak to) like that before.

7. Ann (show) how to bath a baby by her elder sister.

8. A big battle (fight) here 200 years ago.

9. These books must not (take) away from the reading-room. 10. Milk (use) for making butter and cheese.

I1. In some countries women still (deny) the right to vote.

12. My uncle recently (make) a captain.

13. She fell into the water because she (push).

14. We (suppose) to take your remark seriously?

15. They say she (interview) for the job tomorrow.

16. The newspaper (deliver) before I got up this morning.

17. Milk can (buy) at the shop on the corner.

18. We (tell) there (be) a private bathroom for every room.

19. Next week we (tell) who will be in charge of the depart­ment.

20. I phoned the police when I found out that my passport (steed).

21. A new plug for the television must (buy).

22 Smoking (not/allow) in this part of the building.

23 I (tell) that fifty people (invite) to the reception.

24' The National Gallery (restore) at the moment.

25 During the Gulf War many oil wells in Kuwait (damage).

26 He (arrest) by a security guide, who later admitted he had made a mistake.

27 When I entered the room Richard still (examine).

28. I wonder who else is going (to invite).

29. Oranges usually (treat) with wax and then (store) in large boxes.

30. We can't take the car yet: it still (repair).

31. The windows are really dirty: they (not/clean) for years,

32. Do you need (wake) up in the morning?

33. The local cinema (close down) three years ago.

34. Very few typewriters (sell) these days.