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Passive voice Active: Our human resource department structure conducts

Passive: (The study) (is) conducted
(Subject) participle) (Be)

the study every year. (Present tense) (Present tense)

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V1

(Past

Receiver of the action V3Transitive verb

English helping verbs Be: is, am are, was, were Have: has, had Do: did, does

Aux-verb: is
V2 V3 Completed Marginalized Conducted Foretold

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V4 Completing Marginalizing Conducting Foretelling

List of Transitive verbs

Complete Marginalize Conduct Foretell Completed Marginalized Conducted Foretold

Passive construction: A passive construction occurs when

you pickup the object of an action-verb as the subject of a sentence.

PASSIVE VOICE WITH STRUCTURE OTHER EXMAPLE

+ (Subject) 1. Receiver of the action + V3 Transitive verb (Subject) 2. + (Be) (Be) Aux-verb: is/am/are (Past participle)

(Past participle) + Being

Receiver of the action + Aux-verb: is/am/are V3 Transitive verb (Subject) (Be)

(Past participle) +

Receiver of the action + V3 Transitive verb (Subject) participle)

3.

Aux-verb: was/were

(Be)

(Past

PASSIVE VOICE WITH STRUCTURE OTHER EXMAPLE

Passive Active 1. They make Fords in Cologne. FordsaremadeinCologne. Present Simple TimeReference

Projectisbeingmonitoredbythe 2. The management team is monitoring the managementteam project. "Dubliners"waswrittenbyJamesJoyces. 3. James Joyce wrote "Dubliners". 4. They were painting the house when I arrived.

Present Continuous

Past Simple

ThehousewasbeingpaintedwhenIarrived. Past Continuous

Over20modelshavebeenproducedinthe 5. They have produced over 20 models in the pasttwoyears. past two years. Itwillbefinishedtomorrow. 6. I will finish it tomorrow.

Present Perfect

Future Simple

Other details: It is also important to understand that there is another type of verb in the verb-list that is called Intransitive-verb. Passive sentences cannot be written with Intransitive-verb. Intransitive verbs: Intransitive verbs (verbs which do not take objects) cannot be used to form passive sentences. Or to put it simply the action of intransitive-verb does not shift to any object.

Examples:
The train from Montreal arrived four hours late. John came to the meeting. Active voice Haqanni shifted to PM house. The incident occurred last week. Intransitive verbs
V1 Arrive Shift

V2

V3 Arrived Shifted

V4 Arriving Shifting

Arrived Shifted

Intransitive verbs action do not transfer on any object