"Will be ...ED" and "would be ...ED"

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hello there.."will be terminatED"My questions are- under which situation should we use " will be ..ED"?? (things going to happen in the future)- some people use "would be ..ED", under which circumstances??- Whenever it's a " WILL BE" or "WOULD BE", the verb must be in past tenses, true??(if false, why??)Please kindly advice.. thanks

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[nq:1]"will be terminatED" My questions are - under which situation should we use " will be ..ED"?? (things going to ... - Whenever it's a " WILL BE" or "WOULD BE", the verb must be in pasttenses, true?? (if false, why??)[/nq]
English doesn't just have tenses, it also has voices: active and passive.

The active voice is the easiest. In a sentence like:

The dog bites the man.
the dog is the subject because it comes before the main verb and the man is the direct object because it comes after the main verb. In the sentence, it is the dog that does the biting, and the man who says "Ouch" he is the sufferer of the action.
It's important that "subject" and "object" are grammatical terms in passive sentences, we make the sufferer of the action the grammatical subject:
The man is bitten by the dog.
It's still the same event the dog does the biting, and the man suffers. But now "the man" is the subject, and "the dog" is the agent.

The passive is formed in this way: Subject + "to be" + past participle. Note: it's the past participle, NOT the past tense that's used.

This construction is useful, because we can leave out the agent, if we want to. Imagine Sherlock Holmes looking at a dead body. He sees a strange mark on the body: he realises it's a bite mark, but he doesn't know what kind of animal bit the man. He can say: "The man was bitten." So we can use the passive voice when the identity of the agent is unknown or unimportant.

Take the passive sentence: "The contract will be terminated at the end of the month." This means that, at the end of the month, somebody will terminate the contract. Who will terminate the contract is not important. If we want to turn this into an active sentence, we need to know who will terminate the contract. If it's the landlord, for example, then we can say:

The landlord will terminate the contract at the end of the month.

Can you see how it works? Try turning it back into the passive voice. We start with "The contract", because that will be the subject of the passive sentence. Then we need the verb "to be" but which tense? Well, we look at the active sentence: what tense is "will terminate" in? We use that same tense for "to be" "will be". Then we take the past participle of "terminate", which is "terminated".
If the active sentence is: "The landlord would terminate the contract if he knew the tenant had no money", we have a conditional. We form the passive in the same way, using the conditional: "The contract" + "would be" + "terminated".

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[nq:1]"will be terminatED" My questions are - under which situation should we use " will be ..ED"?? (things going to ... under which circumstances?? - Whenever it's a " WILL BE" or "WOULD BE", the verb must be in pasttenses, true??[/nq]
This example is a compound verb (with
the auxiliary Will as well as the verb Terminated) in the Future Perfect tense (q.v.) and in the
Passive voice (q.v.) English grammar has no
set of rules for verb forms ...ED: the verb forms ...ED occur under the general rules for verbs,
including those that require an auxiliary (e.g.
the Future Perfect tense.)

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)

"Will be ...ED" and "would be ...ED"

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