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5. The two brothers ____________________ with each other over the division of property.
6. If we don’t work faster, the project will certainly ____________________.
7. The corporation’s plan to build a steel plant ____________________ after the local villagers
launched a protest.

8. The three friends ____________________ the good old stove to make tea when they can’t get
their new one to work.

Grammar

Active and Passive Voice
Read the following sentence.

We made a list of things to be taken.

You have read about active and passive voice previously, and how we can change the voice to show
whether the subject does something or something is being done to it. A verb is in the active voice
when the subject does the action (we made). It is in the passive when the subject is the direct or
implied receiver and not the doer of the action (to be taken [by us]).

The passive voice is used: (a) when the doer is understood, (b) when the doer is unknown and
(c) when the speaker does not want to specify the doer of the action she/he is speaking about.
When the verb is changed from active to passive, the tense of the verb remains the same. Instead, the
suitable tense of the verb be is added before the past participle in the following ways.

Present Simple: The verb forms is, am and are The three friends take a boat trip.
are used before the past participle. A boat trip is taken by the three friends.

Present Continuous: The verb forms is being/ The three friends are packing a suitcase.
am being/are being are used along with the A suitcase is being packed by the three friends.
past participle.

Present Perfect: The verb forms has been/have The three friends have thought of a boat trip.
been are used before the past participle. A boat trip has been thought of by the three
friends.

Past Simple: The verbs was and were are used I put the butter on that chair.
before the past participle. The butter was put on that chair by me.

Past Continuous: The verb forms was being/ George and Harris were scraping out the butter.
were being are used before the past participle The butter was being scraped out by George
of the verb. and Harris.

Past Perfect: The verb form had been is used They had stepped on the butter accidentally.
before the past participle of the verb. The butter had been stepped on by them
accidentally.

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