The active voice in English usually exhibits the following word order:
- Subject Object Verb
- Verb Object Subject
- Subject Verb Object
- Verb Subject Object
The Passive voice in English usually exhibits the following word order:
- Subject Object Verb
- Object Verb Subject
- Subject Verb Object
- Verb Subject Object
The passive voice equivalent of "The garage will be servicing the car tomorrow" is:
- The car will be being serviced tomorrow
- The car will be serviced by the garage tomorrow
- The car will have been serviced tomorrow
- The car will have been being serviced tomorrow by the garage
When we select a passive, we are always de-emphasizing the subject of the verb.
- True
- Not true
The passive is always
formed with the correct tense of the verb to be.
- True
- False
The passive is formed using:
- the correct tense of the verb to be (or one or two other verbs) and the past participle of the main verb
- the correct tense of the verb to be (or one or two other verbs) and the correct tense of the main verb
- the correct tense of the main verb preceded by to be (or one or two other verbs)
- the subject as an object
The passive can be formed only with __________ verbs.
- transitive
- intransitive
- di-transitive
- active
"An entire bottle has been lost" can be rendered in the active voice as:
- Someone has lost an entire bottle
- There has been an entire bottle lost
- An entire bottle lost itself
"I shouldn't have left the door open" can be made passive as:
- The door shouldn't have been left open
- The door shouldn't have been opened
- The door shouldn't have been being left open
- The door shouldn't have been being opened
"I left it out in the rain and it's been soaked."
The subject is omitted in this sentence because:
- It has already been stated so is known
- We don't know what the subject is
- The subject is not important
- The subject is non-human