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XHealthY Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Need help with The PAssive with modals and Similar expressions

( Active ) they may construct some new airports on islands.
(passive )

(active )
(passive) Passenger facilities might be put on decks under the runways.

could someone teach me well on how to do this?
like explain me , etc. Emotion: stick out tongue

I don't know what is the subject , Verb or object.. etc

is too hard. I need to learn this.

This is what i need to learn

Subject + modal + be + main verpp

Going to try..

Passenger facilites - Subject?
might - modal
be - be
put - verbpp?

I am wrong! ;/
what about the first one.

They may construct some new airports on islands.
  

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Hi xHealthY We've already talked a little about this in another thread here. html xHealthY They may construct some new airports on islands. Here are the parts of speech in your active sentence: Subject = they Modal + main verb = may construct Object = (some new) airports Start your passive sentence with the object from the active sentence: - Some new airports may be constructed on islands.

— Yankee

  • Hi xHealthY We've already talked a little about this in another thread here.
  • html xHealthY They may construct some new airports on islands.
  • Here are the parts of speech in your active sentence: Subject = they Modal + main verb = may construct Object = (some new) airports Start your passive sentence with the object from the active sentence: - Some new airports may be constructed on islands.
  • ) In the passive sentence, "some new airports" is now the subject of the sentence.
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Hi xHealthY

We've already talked a little about this in another thread here.

The information in this link will probably be helpful for you:
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/activepassive.html
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