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    Advanced Passive Structures

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    The document provides examples of advanced passive structures using modal verbs and verbs like believe, say, think, know. It demonstrates how to form the passive voice with these verbs by changing the subject and using auxiliary verbs. Examples are given like "the sun was believed to go around the earth" and "prisoners are said to have been tortured." The relationship between active and passive forms is explained, and exercises are included to practice forming passive sentences.

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    The document provides examples of advanced passive structures using modal verbs and verbs like believe, say, think, know. It demonstrates how to form the passive voice with these verbs by changing the subject and using auxiliary verbs. Examples are given like "the sun was believed to go around the earth" and "prisoners are said to have been tortured." The relationship between active and passive forms is explained, and exercises are included to practice forming passive sentences.

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    The document provides examples of advanced passive structures using modal verbs and verbs like believe, say, think, know. It demonstrates how to form the passive voice with these verbs by changing the subject and using auxiliary verbs. Examples are given like "the sun was believed to go around the earth" and "prisoners are said to have been tortured." The relationship between active and passive forms is explained, and exercises are included to practice forming passive sentences.

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    The document provides examples of advanced passive structures using modal verbs and verbs like believe, say, think, know. It demonstrates how to form the passive voice with these verbs by changing the subject and using auxiliary verbs. Examples are given like "the sun was believed to go around the earth" and "prisoners are said to have been tortured." The relationship between active and passive forms is explained, and exercises are included to practice forming passive sentences.

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    Advanced Passive Structures

    (based on the attached video)

    PASSIVE ADVANCED STRUCTURES


    Examples with BELIEVE
    The Sun was believed to go round the Earth.
    They believed that the Sun went round the Earth in the Middle Ages.

    PASSIVE STRUCTURES WITH KNOW, BELIEVE AND THINK.


    Passive Modals, gerunds & infinitives.
    Coppenhagen is believed to be...

    Examples with SAID


    Travel agencies believe Coppenhagen is an ideal destination for a holiday.
    Modal verbs in the passive voice follow this pattern: Modal + be + past participle. There are many
    possibilities with modal verbs. This video gives a basic description of how to use them in the passive
    voice.
    (modal verb) + be + past participle
    The general relationship between the active form and the passive form is: .
    X does Y
    Y is done by X
    Senior Disney designer Robert McDonnel is said to have created...
    CNN says senior Disney designer Robert McDonnel created a Disney-inspired fairy tale manor worth
    of $ 1.5 million.

    Examples
    Prisoners are said to have been tortured...
    A former prison guard says that prisoners have been tortured in Georgia on a daily basis.
    A woman in Ohio is said to have suffered...
    Forming passive sentences
    Exercise

    A reporter says a woman in Ohio suffered a stroke after she found out that
    she had unknowingly married her absentee father.
    These verbs have two corresponding passives:
    People thought that the earth was flat.
    It was thought that the earth was flat.
    People say that this house is haunted.
    This house is said to be haunted.
    People often called him an idiot.
    He was often called an idiot.
    People know that she has left the country.
    She is known to have left the country.
    People said that there was a monster in the lake.
    There was said to be a monster in the lake.
    ACTIVE
    A - Alice gave us that vase
    B - Alice gave that vase to us
    Passive
    We were given the vase (by Alice)
    That vase was given (to) us (by Alice)
    1) TO GIVE
    Verbs such as GIVE take both a DIRECT OBJECT and an INDIRECT OBJECT in two patterns:
    A - VERB + INDIRECT OBJECT + DIRECT OBJECT
    B - VERB + DIRECT OBJECT + PREPOSITION + INDIRECT OBJECT

    I enjoy singing.
    I drank a cup of coffee
    before leaving.
    Swimming is good exercise.
    We decided to leave.
    It's difficult to get up early.
    I came to London to study English.

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