UNIT 84: PASSIVES WITH MODAL AND OTHER VERBS

Modal verb - verb with two objects - verb + adverb/preposition

1. Modal verb
 Modal present passives: written instructions and rules
Modal verb + be + past participle
Ex: Silk must be washed by hand.
 Modal perfect passives: making guesses about the past or
talking about the past
Modal verb + have been + past participle
Ex: The electronic might have been turned off.

2. Verb with two objects

With these verbs: ask, bring, buy, find, give, lend, make, offer, pay,
promise, read, send, show, teach, tell, throw, write; there are two
ways of forming the passive:
 The ‘person’ object become the subject of the passive verb.
 The ‘thing’ object becomes the subject of passive verb, and we
put to or for in front of the ‘person’ object.
‘thing object’
Ex: The judges gave John first prize
‘person object’

John was given first prize by the judges

First prize was given to John by the judges.

3. Verb + adverb/preposition
- We can usually make passive forms of phrasal verbs if they have
an object.
Ex: They pulled down the old school in 2005.
 The old school was pulled down in 2005.
Note: We don’t separate the verb and adverb.
 - There are a few prepositional verbs that are common in the
passive: be used as, be regarded as, be known as, be based on, be
related to, …
Ex:
- New York is known as ‘The Big Apple’.
- Coco Chanel was regarded as the best designer of the 1920s.
- All these new products were based on extensive market research.

Review:
Change these active sentences to passive:
1. Bill found me an interesting recipe.
 I was found an interesting recipe by Bill.
 An interesting recipe was found for me by Bill.
2. I can’t wait till they bring out the new model.
 I can’t wait till the new model is brought out.
3. You shouldn’t use the elevator during a fire.
 The elevator shouldn’t be used during a fire.