Ex. 3 There are five inventions mentioned in the text. Which one would you most like to have? Why? Which one do you think is the most useful?

Ex. 4 Imagine that you are planning to spend your holiday in the Crimea (or anywhere else). Give the route of your travel there. Try to use as many means of denoting future actions as possible.

Ex. 5 Imagine that you are planning a party. What shops will you go to and what kind of food will you buy?

Unit 6 Passive Forms

Grammar reference

The passive forms are used when:

1 we don't know the agent (the person or thing who performs the action):

My money has been stolen! (I don't know WHO stole my money.)

2 the agent is obvious:

Smoking is forbidden. (It is obvious that this is a rule made by the government, or the management of a building.)

3 the event or action is more important than the agent:

The proposal is being considered by the committee. (We are more interested in whether the proposal will be accepted or not, than who is considering it.)

4 Most verbs with an object (transitive verbs) can be made passive, however, the verbs to own, become, fit (be the right size), get, have, lack, let, like, resemble, suit may not be used in the Passive.

5 It is quite rare to mention an agent in passive sentences.

6 Passives are often used in formal report writing.

He will be informed about the situation.

The building will have been completed by the end of the year.

The road is going to be repaired soon.

7 Modals can be combined with passive infinitives:

It can't be done!

He should have been told about the problem.

8 Not all tenses of active verbs can be transferred to a passive. For example, notice that there are only two continuous passive forms, present and past.

9 It is possible to end a sentence with a preposition in the sentence where a prepositional verb is passive

Our hose was broken into.

10 Make is followed by to when used in the Passive form.

I was made to work hard by my boss.

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