be + V 3

· One-third of the world's grain harvest is used to feed animals instead of people.
SIMPLE · Special storm gates are needed for subway entrances, or the entrances should be
Present redesigned.
T. · Butterfly wings are covered with delicate scales.

Present · The patient is being treated at the moment.

CONTINUOUS · Central American children are being turned back without real due process.
T. They are being held in poor facilities. (immigration)

PRESENT Present · Our city has been chosen as pilot area for the project X.
Tenses PERFECT · 50 talented traditional and digital artists have been chosen to exhibit their works.
T.
Present
PERFECT · Dental implants have been being used in dentistry for over 30 years.
CONTINUOUS
T.
If the person responsible for maintaining employee health records sees that an unusual
Baba cümle: number of these private records are suddenly being accessed by the financial records
office, he or she can ask why.

· In 2013 bio-energy was used for almost 7% of Germany’s electricity production.

· In 1980 only 0.7% of US corn consumption was used for producing fuel.
SIMPLE · Silver compounds were used successfully to prevent infection in World War I (before
Past antibiotics).
T. · They were ordered to evacuate the building
· All the refugees were granted asylum.

· "Tinnitus is a sound that is actually being generated in the brain,’ said Ross
Past McKeown. ‘We thought for a long time it was being generated in the ear, we now
CONTINUOUS know that's not the case."
PAST T. · The women in the haunted house knew something was upstairs and that they were
Tenses being watched all the time.

· Tests showed at least three patients evacuated from a hospital near Fukushima plant had
Past been exposed to radiation .
PERFECT · On 8 July, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that vials
T. containing the deadly virus had been discovered in a cardboard box in…

Past
PERFECT · Forget it!
CONTINUOUS
T.
Simple · If warming rises beyond a certain threshold, the scientists say, serious harm will be done
FUTURE to ecosystems and societies everywhere.
T.

FUTURE
Continuous · Forget it!
T.

TO BE · This system is going to be refined over the next one or two years.
FUTURE GOING TO · Our reporter said that the theft was going to be investigated by the police.
Tenses Future T.

Future
PERFECT · Forget it!
T.

Future

PASSIVE PERFECT
CONTINUOUS
· Forget it!

T.
The teacher wants the homework (to be) finished by Monday .
We hope that the project will be completed by the end of the year.
It is hoped that the project will be completed by the end of the year. = The project is hoped to be
completed by the end of the year.

The exhibition is scheduled to be held in summer.

285 million people are estimated to be visually impaired worldwide.
13.9 million US dogs are estimated to be obese . ( __ not passive)
Polo is believed to have been invented in India in the 1800s.
The woman is thought to have been killed out of jealousy.
Agriculture and settled life was believed to have originated in the Fertile Crescent. ( __ not passive)

My cat enjoys being brushed .

Installation and maintenance work is to be carried out by qualified personnel only.
Some
EXTRAS Get + V3
I don’t think they got arrested for just arguing? (= they were arrested)
The more you click on the ads, the more they will get paid. (=they will be paid)
A woman who called for help last night after she got lost while hiking has been found. (S-V-O?)

It is believed that …
It is believed that the construction of Emperor Qin Shihuang's tomb was left unfinished due to a nationwide
uprising of peasants.
It has been suggested that …
It has been suggested that one of every two animal species on Earth has at least one parasitic nematode
species that lives only with it.
It was decided that …
After the WW1, it was decided that for an indefinite period of time Germany was not to have the industrial
capacity for warfare. The conquerors decided that Germany was to exist as an independent nation.
…

· Memories can be deleted.

· Cravings-we all have them. These intense desires can be triggered by a place, a smell, even
a picture.
· Strong, clear bioplastic containers could be made from rice.
· A huge amount of CO2 could be stored several kilometers underground in hot, salty fluid
called brine.
· Our policy may be changed from time to time.
Can, · Do you ever feel you might be addicted to the Internet?
Could, · “Until the law is changed, people might be exposed to what ordinarily might be
Able to, considered hazardous waste,” Robertson said.
May, · Applications should be sent electronically as a single PDF file to Ms. X.
Might, · DDT should be used "with caution" in combating malaria, a panel of scientists reported
Modals today.
+ Should,
Must, · Air quality problem must be solved as soon as possible.
Passive · Pits at hazardous waste sites must be covered -open-air pits are not allowed .
Have to
(Has to) · Heat must be applied to vaporize the mercury.
· Oil and gas wells have to be tested only once every five years.
· "Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes."

· The author touches on a powerful idea: happiness need not be pursued , simply
rediscovered .
· When we have high school teachers saying that algebra need not be studied by all then we
have a problem.

Modal + have + V3: (just an example)

· The situation was worse than could have been imagined .