Passives for Advanced Students: You May Never Have Asked Yourself This: How Do Passives Work with Perfect Tenses?

6 March, 201425 February, 2016 JacquelineLeave a comment

If this is your first time practising passives, have a look at some earlier articles on the blog. A basic explanation of passives is here. Now we’ll have a look at how passives work in the perfect tenses. Present Perfect First Present Perfect. Have a look at the picture above. The active of this is: The… Continue reading Passives for Advanced Students: You May Never Have Asked Yourself This: How Do Passives Work with Perfect Tenses?

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Passives, Again – Now with Different Tenses

6 March, 20141 June, 2015 Jacqueline1 Comment

In other articles (also here), I explained the basics of passive sentences. A quick recap what this is about: There are active sentences. And there are passive sentences. It could be helpful if you looked up in your own native language what these two things mean. In most languages there is something similar as to what… Continue reading Passives, Again – Now with Different Tenses

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Passives Part 2 – Questions and Negatives

6 March, 201429 August, 2015 Jacqueline1 Comment

Of course you can make passive sentences in any tense, and as a question or a negative sentence. Negatives are easy. All you need to do is follow the rule for passives (use be + V3) and add “not.” For questions, put your first verb before the subject. Here are all the possibilities in the… Continue reading Passives Part 2 – Questions and Negatives

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The Passive Tense – A Basic Explanation

6 March, 201416 February, 2016 Jacqueline2 Comments

Examples of passives sentences are the following: Dinner is served. The plan was abandoned. The decision has been made. Twenty jobs will be cut. What are passive sentences used for, do you think? Well, usually, if someone uses a passive sentence it’s because it doesn’t matter who did something. The passive voice makes what… Continue reading The Passive Tense – A Basic Explanation