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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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