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Pers/Impers Passive forms
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Created on February 1, 2021
Personal/Impersonal form
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Personal and Impersonal Passive Voice
Impersonal form of Passive
we need a non-living subject
It
How to form impersonal form of Passive?
People say that Mary loves cooking.
People say that Mary loves cooking.
People say(active) = It is said(passive)
People say that Mary loves cooking.
People say = It is said
People say +that Mary loves cooking.
It is said that Mary loves cooking.
People say that Mary loved cooking.
People say = It is said
People say +that Mary loved cooking.
It is said that Mary loved cooking.
People say that Mary was cooking.
People say = It is said
People say +that Mary was cooking.
It is said that Mary was cooking.
People said that Mary loved cooking.
People said = It was said
It was said + that Mary loved cooking.
How to form Personal form of passive?
LIST of Infinitives (to see)
to see
Present Simple tenses
Present Continuous
to be seing
to have seen
Past Simple tenses
to have been seing
Past Continuous tenses
we need a person as a subject
She/he/my friends/Tom/my mother/Kate/the police
Present Simple
People say that Mary loves cooking.
People say that Mary loves cooking. People say = mary is said
People say
Mary loves
People say
Mary loves
to love (infinitive of Present Simple Tense)
Mary is said to love cooking.
Past Simple
People say that Mary loved cooking.
People say
Mary loved
to have loved(infinitive of Past Simple Tense)
People say
Mary loved
Mary is said to have loved cooking.
Present Continuous
People say that Mary is cooking.
People say
Mary is cooking
People say
Mary is cooking
to be cooking(infinitive of Present Continuous Tense)
Mary is said to be cooking.
People say
Mary was cooking
Past Continuous
People say that Mary was cooking.
People say
Mary was cooking
to have been cooking(infinitive of Past Continuous Tense)
Mary is said to have been cooking.
Future Simple
People say that Mary will love cooking.
People say
Mary will love
People say
Mary will love
to love(basic infinitive)
Mary is said to love cooking.
Past Simple - Past Simple
People believed that Mary cooked.
People believed
Mary cooked
People believed
Mary cooked
to cook(basic infinitive)
Mary was believed to cook.
Past Simple - Past Perfect
People thought that Mary had worked there before.
People thought = Mary was thought
People thought
Mary had worked
People believed
Mary had worked
to have worked(infinitive of Past Tense)
Mary was thought to have worked there before.
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