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ErnestasAbromavicius Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

The Passive (need help)

I'm from lithuania and we are now learning this subject it's pretty hard , so I need help with one exercise:

Make a passive sentence from the words in brackerts.

1.A.Have they caught the thieves yet?

B. Yes .(two men / arrest / yesterday)

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2.A.Did you biuld the garage yourselves?

B.No(the garage / build/ before we moved in)

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3.A.Why is Paul afraid of dogs?

B.(he /bite / a dog / when he was a little boy)

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4.A.Sarah is very ill.

B.(she/take/to hospital last night)

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5.A.This room is a disgrace

B.(it/ not clean / for weeks)

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6.A.Did you know about your suprise party?

B.No. (it / arrange / in secret)

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7.A.Are you going to drive to work today?

B.I can't (the car/ not fix / yet)

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8.A.Has Tom got a job?

B.No. (he/make redundant / last month)

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I made this exercise , but I wanna know did I did it good , it's very important for me please help .
  

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Please first post your replies, otherwise it's like us doing your homework.
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As a general rule, for the passive by using the form of the verb "to be" that is appropriate for the subject and the tense, and then used the past participle.

I caught the fish. The fish [was] caught. - Was because it's third person singular and past.

I am walking dogs. The dogs [are being] walked. Are being because it's third person plural, and present continuous.
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Ok still hard , i'll just write here how I wrote in my book ( i will write just B)

1.Two men were arrested yesterday

2.The garage had been built before we moved in

3. he was bitten by a dog when he was a little boy

4.she was taken to hospital last night

5.it hadn't been cleaned for weeks

6.It had been arranged in secret

7.the car hadn'
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No mistakes in your construction of the passive.

(Where are my mistakes?)

Just remember to start with a capital letter and end with a period.
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Good work, ErnestasAbromavicius. Emotion: smile

I would suggest changing the tense in sentence 5. It would be better in the presen
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everything else is ok? right? =]
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Sorry, sentence 7 needs the same sort of change as sentence 5. Sentence 2 has two correct options:

1.Two men were arrested yesterday. OK

2.The garage had been built before we moved in. OK -- The passive form of the simple past tense (was built) would also be OK bec
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I used present perfect passive here subject + has been + past participle , it just has been in negetive hasn't been , or I'm wrong?
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You originally used the past perfect passive in sentences 5 and 7.
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ErnestasAbromaviciusI'm from lithuania and we are now learning this subject it's pretty hard , so I need help with one exercise:
Make a passive sentence from the words in brackerts.
1.A.Have they caught the thieves yet?
B. Yes .(two men / arrest / yesterday)
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2.A.Did you biuld the garage yourselves?
B.No(
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