DK Grammar Guide
59 The future continuous can sometimes be formed with “going to” instead of “will,” but this is less common. It can be used in m ...
60 The future perfect is used to talk about an event that will overlap with, or finish before, another event in the future. It c ...
61 The future perfect continuous can be used to predict the length of an activity. This tense looks back from the imagined finis ...
62 FURTHER EXAMPLES There are a number of constructions in English that can be used to describe thoughts about the future that s ...
63 The past continuous is used to talk about an arranged future event from a time in the past. FURTHER EXAMPLES FURTHER EXAMPLES ...
64 Future overview THE FUTURE The present simple can be used to talk about events that are timetabled or scheduled to take place ...
65 English uses different constructions to talk about the future. These are mostly formed with the auxiliary verb “will” or a fo ...
66 In most sentences, the subject carries out an action and the object receives it, or the result of it. In passive sentences, t ...
67 The past participle describes what happens to the subject. “BEING” PAST PARTICIPLE REST OF SENTENCE PRESENT CONTINUOUS PRESEN ...
68 English uses the passive voice in the past to stress the effect of an action that happened in the past, rather than the cause ...
69 HOW TO FORM FURTHER EXAMPLES “BEING” PAST PARTICIPLE "BY" + AGENT The main verb is expressed as a past participle. “Was” is f ...
70 HOW TO FORM FURTHER EXAMPLES SUBJECT “HAS / HAVE” “BEEN” PAST PARTICIPLE PRESENT PERFECT PRESENT PERFECT PASSIVE The present ...
71 HOW TO FORM FURTHER EXAMPLES SUBJECT "HAD BEEN" PAST PARTICIPLE PAST PERFEC T PASSIVE PAST PERFEC T The past perfect passive ...
72 English uses the passive voice in the future to stress the effect of an action that will happen in the future, rather than th ...
73 HOW TO FORM FURTHER EXAMPLES “WILL HAVE BEEN” PAST PARTICIPLE “Will have been” stays the same with any subject. The thing tha ...
74 Modal verbs in English can be used in passive forms. As with other passive constructions, the emphasis changes to the object ...
75 HOW TO FORM FURTHER EXAMPLES PERFECT WITH MODAL PERFECT PASSIVE WITH MODAL Modals in perfect tenses can become passive by rep ...
76 “THERE” + PASSIVE REPORTING VERB “TO BE / TO HAVE BEEN” INFINITIVE CLAUSE SUBJECT + PASSIVE REPORTING VERB “IT” + PASSIVE REP ...
77 FURTHER EXAMPLES The past participle describes what happens to the subject. A form of “get” is used instead of “be.” The thin ...
78 Conditional sentences are used to describe real or hypothetical results of real or hypothetical situations. They can use many ...
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