Passive Voice (Unit 15)

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Dear Sir
I am a new student so.
Please let me know that what is the meaning by Irregular Verb and Regular verba ,
and also one more thing is that what are the situations for using the active and passive phrases :o

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Hi,

your examples are very well. I learned from your examples very much something.

Thanks

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Hi Sultan,

welcome to the site, I am sure you will learn a lot by this site.

[color=green]Regular verbs= which are made by adding [color=red]“ed” like [color=green](reach, reached, reached), (walk, walked, walked), (watch, watched, watched) etc

[color=blue]Irregular verbs= there is no specific rule for these verbs like [color=blue](go, went, gone), (hit, hit, hit), (ring, rang, rung), (catch, caught, caught) etc

for further detail you can see the following links

englishclub.com/vocabulary/i … -verbs.htm

chompchomp.com/handouts/irregularrules01.pdf

learnenglish.byexamples.com/main … lar-verbs/

I hope that these links will be helpful to understand the difference between regular and irregular verbs.

have a good day

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Hi Khan,

have you resolved youe question regarding passive voice past/preesent/future continue tense

regards
shafqat

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Dear Mr. Alan/Torsten

I have not seen any example of Passive in (Past Perfect continuous/Present Perfect continuous/Future Perfect Continuous Tense) then how can soliboy give example of these passive.

I am still confused

please explain can we use (Past Perfect continuous/Present Perfect continuous/Future Perfect Continuous Tense) in passive

waiting for your reply

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Hi khan,

not yet, I am a little confused by soliboy’s example of passive in “Present Perfect Continuous/Past Perfect Continuous and Future Perfect Continuous”

I am just waiting for guidance from experts

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Hi!
There are so many tenses in English language. Do native speaker use them all?

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Thank you all very much, your lessons are very helpful I’m an English teacher
and I’m honored to participate with you all.
I have a question: How questions changed to passive?
thanks.

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hi sunny
I hav a quetion … what is the difference between regular verb and the irregular verb ?
thank you
regards
simba :slight_smile:

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Hi, can I answer this question?
regular past verbs a lways end with the suffix “ed” and the past participle ( p.p)
e.g: present verb -----------past--------------------- p.p

  • play---------------- played ----------------- played
  • ask ------------------asked-------------------- asked
  • change--------------changed--------------------changed
  • cry------------------ cried------------------- cried
  • But the irregular verbs varies from one group to another { we must memorize them by heart}, because they don’t have one rule to change them.

e.g: present verb-------------- past------------------ p.p

-eat----------------- ate----------------- eaten
-drive------------------ drove--------------- driven
-come------------------ came ---------------- come

  • read----------------- read {red}--------------- read { red}
  • cut ----------------- cut-------------------- cut
    I hope I were helpful.
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nice sharing

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Actually I am not well familiar with ‘being’
but I try
This message is being typed by me when I watched this mail.

I love being a good English speaker but not so

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Hi Mr. Torsten/Alan,

There is a problem in viewing TOEIC listening tests. Whenever I got new post message and click to view, the system shows this message “The topic or post you requested does not exist”

you can see this link viewtopic.php?p=177015#177015

kindly check it.

thanks

regards,

misskhan

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Hello,

I don’t have any question, but my problem is when I have to apply this rule I don’t use it properly. How I can practice this subject?

Thank you,
Elliott

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Dear Sir,
I did some thing more better up to Unit-16 (Present Perfect). Now what is more than Unit-16, kindly help in this regards
Aziz Ahmed Memon

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sorry, I don’t understand the lesson about ( passive )
can you explain more about it ? thank you.

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I need that sentence in passive form.

Please help me.

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Hi Elliott,
If I understoond your question perfectly, I would say" we often use the passive form when it is not so important ( who or what ) did the action in the sentence.
For example: we can say either:
=The house was built in 1700. OR
=The house was built in 1700 by Romans.
I hope I’ve been helpful.

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hai 2 everybody,
In spoken , I am always using have,about words repeatedly…I want to know how we use hav,has/have been in speech and active passive ?
plz one of our communicator reply to tis…i am eager to know that.

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Hi Pappu,
First of all, I would like from you to write English, and not to use for example 2= to
because if you are very serious in learning you must use it.
Answering your question as following:
1- we use " to have " ( have / has/ had)= to indicate an action that was happening in a certain time in the past, with a connection with the present.For exampl we say:
a- He/She/It has eaten the food. PS= we always put the past participle of the verb after ( has /have / had)
b- They/We/You/I have eaten the food.
Examples ( a+b) are called " present perfect"
c-He/She/It/ They/We/You/I had eaten the food.
c= is called past perfect.

2- we use ( have/has been+ past participle)as in passive which the rule of passive sentences always ( Object + auxiliary +verb (p.p)+(by agent).)
examples:
a-Tom has cleaned the room.( an active sentence)
The room has been cleaned. ( passive sentence)

b-Tom has cleaned the cars. ( an active sentence)
The cars have been cleaned. ( passive sentence)
I hope I’ve been helpful