Fundamentals Of English Grammar

I CONTENTS

10-1 Active sentences and passive sentences

10-2 Form of the passive

10-3 Transitive and intransitive verbs

10-4 Using the by-phrase

10-5 The passive forms of the present and

past progressive

10-6 Passive modal auxiliaries

10-7 Using past participles as adjectives

(stative passive)

10-8 Participial adjectives: -ed vs. -ing

10-9 Get + adjective;get + past participle

10-10 Using be usedlaccustomed to and

get usedlaccustomed to

10-1 1 Used to vs. be used to

10-12 Using be supposed to

(a) ~cm: The mouse a& the cheese. (a) and (b) have the same meaning.

@) PASSIVE: The cheese rws eaten by the mouse.

ACTIVE PASSIVE

ACTIVE:

S 0

mailed I the package. 1

In (c): The object in an active sentence becomes the

subject in a passive sentence.

PASSIVE: / \

S by + 0

(d) 1 The package was mailed ibyBob.l

In (d): The subject in an active sentence is the object

of 6y in the byphrase in a passive sentence.