talkalot intermediate book 1 passive voice

Talk a Lot Intermediate Book 1 Notes on Intermediate Verb Forms Passive Voice = be + past participle Time of action: Past, present, or future.. object + be + past participle Present S

Talk a Lot

Intermediate Book 1

Notes on Intermediate Verb Forms Passive Voice = be + past participle

Time of action: Past, present, or future

When do we

need to use it?

When it isn’t important who does the action (who is the subject):

The parcel will be delivered here on Wednesday

Or when you don’t know who does the action (who is the subject):

Stonehenge was built around five thousand years ago

How is it formed? object + be + past participle

Present Simple: is / are + past participle

Paul delivers newspapers every day Newspapers are delivered (by Paul) every day

Past Simple: was / were + past participle

Paul delivered newspapers yesterday Newspapers were delivered (by Paul) yesterday

Present Continuous: is / are + being + past participle

Paul is delivering newspapers Newspapers are being delivered (by Paul)

Past Continuous: was / were + being + past participle

Paul was delivering newspapers Newspapers were being delivered (by Paul)

Present Perfect: have / has + been + past participle

Paul has delivered the newspapers The newspapers have been delivered (by Paul)

Present Perfect Continuous: have / has + been + being + past participle

Paul has been delivering the The newspapers have been being delivered newspapers (by Paul) [RARE]

Past Perfect: had + been + past participle

Paul had delivered the newspapers The newspapers had been delivered (by Paul)

Past Perfect Continuous: had + been + being + past participle

Paul had been delivering the The newspapers had been being delivered newspapers (by Paul) [RARE]

Future with “will”: will + be + past participle

Paul will deliver the newspapers The newspapers will be delivered (by Paul)

Future with “going to”: be + going to + be + past participle

Paul is going to deliver the The newspapers are going to be delivered newspapers (by Paul)

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Talk a Lot

Intermediate Book 1

Notes on Intermediate Verb Forms

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Future Perfect with “will”: will + have + been + past participle

Paul will have delivered the The newspapers will have been delivered newspapers (by Paul)

Future Perfect with “going to”: be + going to + have + been

+ past participle

Paul is going to have delivered the The newspapers are going to have been newspapers delivered (by Paul)

Future Perfect Continuous with “will”: will + have + been + being + past participle

Paul will have been delivering the The newspapers will have been being delivered newspapers (by Paul) [RARE]

Modal Forms: will / can, etc + be + past participle

Modal Perfect: will / can, etc + have + been + past participle

Contractions /

Questions / Negatives /

Passive / State verbs

As usual for verb forms

Tips: • All English sentences are either active (subject + verb) or

passive (object + be + past participle).

• We can add “by…” if we know who does the action and it’s relevant, or omit it.

• Passive forms need transitive verbs, i.e verbs that can take an object, such as “open” or “prepare”:

The door was opened [by…]

The lunch was prepared [by…] etc.

• Intransitive verbs, such as live, wait, and sit down, cannot be

used in passive sentences, e.g.

Active: Bob sat down at the table 9

Passive: The table was sat down at by Bob 8 This kind of sentence is needlessly clumsy and unclear.

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