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A full investigation of the events leading. informed of | ey ‘ordered and anyone with information (12) _______ asked. tess iwi oh nies. ofthe verbs that you completed in Exercise 3arein the passive TZ How man 115 Scanné avec CamScanner———————ls—‘“‘Cs 16 rrepassive p= The passive | }:| Grammar The passive How the passive is formed iple: We form the passive by using the verb to be followed by the past participl ae eel it the airport. i at t. The police officer saw the robber at the airport. 7 eer 's following hi fe’ tocatch x to be caught to have caught > to have been caught catching > being caught having caught > having been caught catch(es) > amfaresis caught am/are is catching > amfarefis being caught will catch > willbe caught am/arelis going to catch > am/arejis going to be caught has/have caught > has/have been caught caught > was/were caught was catching > was being caught had caught > had been caught ‘would catch would be caught would have caught == would have been caught When the passive is used The passive is used quite often in English, ‘+ we don't know who or what did so ‘My phone has been stolen. 1 both in g mething: the action is more important than who didi Income tax was introduced in England in 17. * itis obvious who or what did so The thief has been arrested. it: 98, mething: 116 Scanné avec CamScanner__The passive 1 6 this information i ee Ww the robber) ton is important: by + person/thing to show wh i se rnb pele fiche pan en verbs with fea ee buy, bri (eg. give, send, buy, i ree ve git sen ¥y, bring) can have two objects: Awitness gave Someinformation to the palicé. Lots of fans sent the;feotballet birthdayrearas, Lots of fans sent birthidaycards to the footballer. ither of the objects can be the subject of a passive sentence: passive: [ieBolicé were given some information by a witness was given to the police by a witness, [Th footBallét was sent birthday cards by lots of fans. Birthidayicards were sent to the footballer by lots of fans, to have/get something done When we ask someone else to do somethit ir The president had his speeches written (by his staff). Jhad my hair cut. (= The hairdresser cut my hair.) I'm having my kitchen painted. (= The decorator is painting my kitchen.) They want to have their car fixed. (= They want the garage to fix their car.) In informal speech, we often use get instead of have: got my hair cut. (= |had my hair cut.) When are you getting that window repaired? We need to get something done about this leak in the roof It is said that ... We often use it + passive + that wh Itis believed that the tree was place We can use a number of verbs in thi It’s (is) said that a famous singer usec twas agreed that the theatre must be closed. (= | ies Ge) reported that the damage will cst milions of pounds to repair. | its nounced that a new road will be built along the river. Fea aienanle ight that the sun revolved around the Earth, (= Peop Until the 16th century it was thou The president's staff wrote his speeches.) ‘en we report what people in general say or believe: 1d there by other members ofthe gang, (= Everyone believes that...) s pattern, eg. agree, announce, believe, decide, report, say, think: 4 to live in this house. (= People say that The theatre's owners agreed that ..) he news media report that he council has announced le generally thought that...) = \ Scanné avec CamScanner16 trepassve_ he Grammar €xerciSes words. Choose the cnr allowed to stay up late and see the fireworks. The children wanted to be / been a i ing / delayed by fog and we missed our connecto (nn ge been invited to Ralph's party. dnt Iking because she wasn't / has . es market, the best fruit had be / had been sold. 1 While the meal was being / been prepared, we had a drink on the terrace. ‘The new library will be open / opened by the Mayor next Saturday. 2 3 4 By the time we arrived at the s 6 7 The rock star was sent a chocolate cake by / of one of his fans. [EA] Fittin the gaps with the passive form of the verbs. govern ilty of fraud yesterday. ter___ was found __(find) guilty of 2 art ame (do) while | was asleep, 2 It wasa lovely surprise to find that all the washing-up. : 3. These souveni (make) by children from the local school in their last summer holidays. Wait for me! i don't want 't____(say) that the Prime Minister's husband plays the piano quite well. The votes (count) right now and we should know the result before midnight. Ashe Inthepast.it___________ (think) that the population of the wor but nowit. (agree) that this may not be true, 9 The judges stil have to decide which design (award) the top prize. 10 Thisparcelappears____________ (open) before th eetver), Ed maces the two halves of the conversations and fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in 1 I thought those chairs were broken, A '——_____ (have / colour), 2 Your bike's got a flat tyre! B Yes, you need to__ (have / take in). 3. This carpet’ filthy, © Vean__ : 4 What's happened to your hair? D Yes, we should Ss ase 5 Idon't like this room. Ie’ i es : Isto dark, \g rae ed a 7 8 (leave) on my own! (sack) from his previous job, he found it hard to ‘get another, rid would always increase BN aun These rousersare much tooloase, F We What a beautiful garden! awe a (have / check) before we go away. Why is your car at the garage? Ne beet / clean), at (have / design) by an expert Scanné avec CamScanneread this report in the Cybernian News. victorious Cybemian Inter-galactic Forces report: ay we invaded Planet Upstart with a large force. We ‘completely crushed the yearold rebellion there, Our space have destroyed ninety per cent of the Upstart space xt. A special Cybernian task force landed near the central munications building and captured it without difficulty. Our okesperson immediately broadcast a message to the population. We announced that we had erated them from the illegal Upstart government and we asked them to cooperate with the new UPSTART NEWS...22 OCTOBER 3008... fetmunac sterday our planet (1) wasp invaded (invade) by a large force from Cybernia. Our year-old t ion (2) (crush), \ finety percent of our space flet (3) (destroy). The central communications building | (capture) without difficulty by a special Cybernian task force and a message ¢ | \ (broadcast). It (6) _______{announce) that we (7) (ask) to cooperate with our new government. Our leaders (Cake) to Cybernia where it (put) on trial: FO (arrest) and they (10) (claim) that they (12) oO Correct the mistake in each of the following sentences by Cambridge First candidates. le mark on the ceiling was-appeared last week. ——sepeared ‘escaped without having being recognised by anyone. shopping mall was been built in the town centre about 20 years ago. of the problems was happened when we arrived at the hotel, esterday | went to your barber's shop to cut my hair and | was very ‘disappointed. Ican get my computer fixing at the shop next to the bank. Scanné avec CamScannerbe saat Part 4 English ratitras a sii meaning to the first senteng, two and five words,” tence 50"! given. You™ ind Use of betwee! Reading a! d sent For questions 1-6, complete the et using the word given 10 not cen : including the word giver Here ust US? 0 Mygrandfather hasn't spoken to me since i ‘Sunday. My grandfather last 4 Thestudents gave WAS Aconcert puter needs to be repaired before the weekend. students after their exams. 2 Mycomy HAVE I must 3. We heard reports last Tv inet oe 4 Noone gave my message to the shop manager. NOT ee the shop manager. imon had cheated. before the weekend. week that the dictator had fled the country. the dictator had fled the country. 5 The teacher said Si ACCUSED et ee 4 Simon his teacher. 6 The address the tourist office gave us for the hotel was wrong so We got lost. RIGHT cee so we got lost. address for the hotel by the tourist office Grammar focus task ne Which of the sentences can these phrases be added to? a byanexpert a potent b by the foreign press t effect does this have on their meaning? Scanné avec CamScanner