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    Passive Voice 3

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    1. When an active sentence contains both an indirect and direct object, the indirect object becomes the subject in the passive form. For example, "The police were given the information" rather than "We gave the police the information." 2. Impersonal and personal passive forms can be used with verbs like "believe" and "expect." For example, "It is said that he is 98 years old" or "He is said to be 98 years old." 3. The phrase "have something done" means to arrange for someone else to do something, like "Tom had his car washed" rather than washing it himself. "Get something done" can also be used with the same meaning.

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    1. When an active sentence contains both an indirect and direct object, the indirect object becomes the subject in the passive form. For example, "The police were given the information" rather than "We gave the police the information." 2. Impersonal and personal passive forms can be used with verbs like "believe" and "expect." For example, "It is said that he is 98 years old" or "He is said to be 98 years old." 3. The phrase "have something done" means to arrange for someone else to do something, like "Tom had his car washed" rather than washing it himself. "Get something done" can also be used with the same meaning.

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    1. When an active sentence contains both an indirect and direct object, the indirect object becomes the subject in the passive form. For example, "The police were given the information" rather than "We gave the police the information." 2. Impersonal and personal passive forms can be used with verbs like "believe" and "expect." For example, "It is said that he is 98 years old" or "He is said to be 98 years old." 3. The phrase "have something done" means to arrange for someone else to do something, like "Tom had his car washed" rather than washing it himself. "Get something done" can also be used with the same meaning.

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    1. When an active sentence contains both an indirect and direct object, the indirect object becomes the subject in the passive form. For example, "The police were given the information" rather than "We gave the police the information." 2. Impersonal and personal passive forms can be used with verbs like "believe" and "expect." For example, "It is said that he is 98 years old" or "He is said to be 98 years old." 3. The phrase "have something done" means to arrange for someone else to do something, like "Tom had his car washed" rather than washing it himself. "Get something done" can also be used with the same meaning.

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    Special passive voice forms

    1. Passive form with verbs followed by two objects. Forma passiva


    con verbi seguiti da due complementi:
    When a verb is followed both by an indirect object and a direct one, the
    indirect object will be the subject of the passive voice sentence. Quando un
    verbo è seguito da un complemento di termine e da un complemento oggetto,
    il complemento di termine diventerà il soggetto della frase passiva:

    Active: We gave the police the information.


    Passive: The police were given the information.
    It’also possible (but rarely used): the information was given to the police.

    I was offered the job but I refused it. (= they offered me the job)
    Mary was offered a bunch of flowers. (Someone offered Mary a bunch of
    flowers.)

    2. Passive voice with personal and impersonal forms ( referring to


    verbs such as: believe, expect, fear, know, report, say, think, under
    stand, consider, allege…). Voce passiva con forme personali e
    impersonali ( con riferimento a verbi come: believe, expect, fear,
    know, report, say, think, understand, consider, allege…):

    Steve is very old. Nobody knows exactly how old he is:


    a. It is said that he is 98 years old. (impersonal form)
    b. He is said to be 98 years old. (Personal form, more common)
    Mr Bean is believed to live in Scotland. It is believed that Mr. Bean lives in
    Scotland.

    3. We use have something done to say that we arrange for somebody


    else to do something for us. Have something done corrisponde al verbo
    fare seguito da un verbo con funzione passiva per indicare che
    incarichiamo qualcun altro di fare qualcosa per noi.
    Tom ha lavato la macchina:
    a. Tom washed his car. (Tom washed it himself)
    b. Tom had his car washed. (Tom arranged for somebody else to wash it)

    You can also say “get something done” instead of “have something
    done” (mainly in informal spoken English). Si può anche usare “get
    something done” al posto di “have something done” (soprattutto nell’inglese
    colloquiale).
    Tom got his car washed.
    Mi sono tagliati i capelli ieri.
    I had/got my hair cut yesterday. (I arranged for somebody else to cut my
    hair)
    I cut my hair yesterday (I did it myself)
    *Interactive Exercises
    http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive/exercises?07
    http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive/exercises?08
    http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive/exercises?09
    http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-
    up/grammar/participles/exercises?08

    *Please note:
    Listen carefully to the following videos in youtube, they speak about
    the Passive Voice.
    Ascoltate attentamente i seguenti video di youtube, essi parlano della
    voce passiva.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsGXb4357Hg
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTQb42w7oig&NR=1

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