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Passive Continuous Tenses

Present			Past
I		am being
invited.			I
He			He		was being
			invited.
She		is being invited.	She
It			It
We			We
You		are being	You		were being
invited.			invited.
They			They
Am	I	being
invited?				I
	he		Was	he	being
			invited?
Is	she	being		she
invited?				it
	it			we
	we
			Were	you	being
Are	you	being	invited?
invited?				they
	they
I		am not being
invited.			I
He			He		was not being
			invited.
She		is not being	She
invited.			It
It			We
We
			You		were not being
You		are not being	invited.
invited.			They
They

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Exercise 1. Translate into Ukrainian.

1.The gates are being painted. 2. The car is being polished. 3. My TV is being repaired. 4. His suit is being dry-cleaned. 5. The gates aren’t being mended. They are being painted. 6. They aren’t being introduced to Mr. Brown. They’re being introduced to Professor Black. 7. Is the fence being painted? 8. Are you being worried by that man? 9. Are your shoes being cleaned? 10. Why isn’t your radio being repaired? 11. Your car is being polished, isn’t it? 12. They’re being introduced to Professor Black, aren’t they? 13. You aren’t being annoyed by those children, are you? 14. These goods are being exported to all European countries. 15. The new exhibition of this artist is being visited actively. 16. The meeting was being held, when I entered the office. 17. The house was being built when I learned at school.

Exercise 2. Use Past Continuous Passive.

1. When he wanted to wear his suit, it (to dry-clean). 2. While they (to photograph), the camera broke down. 3. While I (to introduce) to Mary, the telephone rang. 4. The fence (not to paint) at ten o’clock yesterday. 5. This newspaper (not to print) twenty-five years ago. 6. When I arrived home last night, the dinner (not to cook). 7. Were you (to photograph) at three o’clock yesterday? 8. Wasn’t Betty (to ask) to sing when you came into the room? 9. Why wasn’t the dinner (to prepare) when you arrived home? 10. When you arrived at the party, Mary (to ask) to sing, wasn’t she?

Exercise 3. Turn from Active into Passive:

-Someone is helping her with the housework.

-She is being helped with the housework.

1.The farmer is building a new barn. 2. The secretary is giving Mrs. Jones some letters just now. 3. She is cleaning the windows in her new flat. Her mother is putting up new curtains. Nina’s husband is painting the walls. 4. We are planting some trees in the yard. 5. They are delivering computers at the moment. 6. Mother was cooking dinner when father came. 7. We were packing things at that moment last Sunday. 8. We were waiting for him at the station yesterday. 9. They were building a new hotel in our street at that time. 10. At twelve o’clock the workers were loading the trucks.

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Exercise 4. Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Indefinite Passive or Present Continuous Passive form.

The food (keep) here. – The food is kept here.

The bridge (repair). – The bridge is being repaired.

1. Such mistakes (make) by even the best students. 2. The houses (build) of stone, brick and wood. 3. A new museum now (open). 4. A special route (make) for students to be taken to the University. 5. An important meeting (hold) tonight at 7 p.m. 6. Special arrangements (make) for the party. 7. The patients (examine) now. 8. A festival of poetry (organize) at the faculty of Mathematics. 9. This ruin (say) to be very ancient. 10. All political events (discuss) weekly by our group.

Exercise 5. Use Past Indefinite or Present Continuous Passive.

1. Many towns (to destroy) by the storm in Japan last year. 2. The pop singers arrived at the airport and (to welcome) by thousands of fans. 3. The exposition (to open) when we entered the picture gallery. 4. The policeman noticed that the suitcase (to carry) by the porter in a most strange way. 5. The naughty boy (to teach) a very good lesson by his friends. 6. When I came to the skating rink he (to teach) to skate by his elder brother. 7. She watched television while dinner (to prepare). 8. I (to ask) a lot of questions about my private life. 9. His cousins (to fine) for exceeding speed limit yesterday.

Present Perfect

Past Perfect

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Passive Perfect Tenses

I have	been	Have	I	been	I have	not been
invited.		invited?			invited.
He			he		He
She	has	Has		she	She	has not
been invited.		been invited?			been
It			It		It
We			we		invited.
You	have	Have		you	We
been invited.		been invited?			You	have
They			they		not been
					They
					invited.
I		Had	I	been
		invited?			I
He					He
had been		he			She	had
She		Had		she	not
invited.		been invited?			It
It			it		been
We			we		We
					invited.
had been		Had		you	You
You		been invited?			They
invited.			they
They

Future Perfect

Future Perfect in the Past

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I shall have been			Shall I have been				I	shall	not	have
invited.			invited?				been invited.
He			he				He			will
will have been			Will		she		have been
She			have been				She
invited.			it				invited.
It			invited?				It
We	shall	have	Shall	we	have		We shall		not	have
been invited.			been invited?				been invited.
You			Will		you		You			will
will have been			have been				have been
They			They				They
invited.			invited?				invited.
I	should	have	Should	I	have		I	should	not	have
been invited.			been invited.				been invited.
He				He		h	He
She			Would She				She		would
would have been				It			not have
It			Should	we	have		It			been
invited.							invited.
			been invited
We	should	have	Would	You			We should not have
been invited.				They			been invited.
You			invited				You
would have been							would not have
They							They
invited.							been invited.

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Exercise 1. Open the brackets using Perfect Passive.

1.He (to elect) as Secretary of the club. 2. John (to ask) already to bring his guitar to the party. 3. The library never (to close) before nine o’clock. 4. This newspaper (to print) every day for twenty years. 5. Tom and Bill (not to invite) to the party yet. 6. You (not to introduce) to Mr. Brown yet. 7. This program just (to broadcast). 8. The new gates (not to install) yet. 9. Why Bill and Mary (not to invite) to Anne’s party? 10. The gates (to close) very early, haven’t they? 11. This plan (to recommend) by the Committee, hasn’t it?

Exercise 2. Turn from Active into Passive.

1.The gardener has planted some trees. 2. Doctor Brown will have given you some advice by the end of the next day. 3. Someone has broken the crystal vase. 4. They will have advertised the product on television by eight o’clock tomorrow. 5. Father had taught me to play chess by the time I was four.6. I have translated the whole text. 7. By three o’clock the workers had loaded the trucks. 8. They have made a number of important experiments in this laboratory. 9. By the middle of autumn we had planted all the trees. 10.By the middle of next autumn we shall have planted all the trees. 11. They have forgotten the story. 12. Has anybody explained the rules of the game to you? 13. They have told her the truth. 14. Have you written the letter yet? 15. They will not have invited us to the nearest party. 16. Shall we have been invited to the party by the end of the day?

Exercise 3.Use Past Indefinite or Present Perfect Passive.

1. The decorations (to complete) an hour ago. 2. The preparations for the party just (to finish) and the guests are already arriving. 3. The baby (to feed) an hour ago. 4. Nick (to feed) yet? – Not yet. 5. He (not to see) for a week already. 6. The paper (not to read) by anyone yet. 7. The suit (not wear) for a long time. 8. This fact (not to mention) in his last speech. 9. I’m happy as I just (to allow) to stay here for an extra day. 10. She (to teach) music in her childhood. 11. You ever (to teach) to play chess? 12. I just (to advise) to keep to a diet. 13. The sportsmen (to give) instructions before the match. 14. I can’t believe my eyes! My book (to publish) already! 15. I am not going to the party. I (not to invite). 16. This room looks different. It (to paint) since I was last here?

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Sequence of Tenses
Indirect Speech
Table 1.6.	Direct Speech			Indirect
Speech
Present	Indefinite		–	Past
Indefinite
Present	Continuous		–	Past
Continuous
Present Perfect		–		Past Perfect
Past Indefinite		–		Past Perfect
Future Indefinite		–		Future-in-the
Past
Table 1.7.	Direct Speech			Indirect
Speech
today				that day
yesterday				the
day before
tomorrow				the
next day
…ago
…before
this				that
these				those
here				there
last year				the year
before
last month				the
month before
last…				the…
before
next…				the
following

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Table 1.8.
			Indirect Commands.
			Keep quiet! Don’t make noise!
			He told me				to keep quiet and
			He asked me				not to make noise
Table 1.9.
	Indirect Questions.
	Special questions.						He asked (me)…
							He wanted to know…
							He wondered…
	“What are you doing?”						what I was doing.
	“Where do you live?”						where I lived.
	“What have you prepared for						what I had prepared for that day.
	today? ”						when I had come home the day
	“When did you come home						before.
	yesterday?”						when my mother would come
	“When will your mother come						home.
	home?”
	General questions.						He asked (me)…
							He wanted to know…
							He wondered…
								I was watching TV.
	“Are you watching TV?”
	“Does she go to work?”						if,	She went to work.
	“Have		you	done	your		whether	I had done my
	homework?”							homework.
	“Did you skate last winter?”							I had skated the winter
	“Will you see your friend							before.
	tomorrow?”							I should see my friend
								the next day.

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Table 1.10.
	Direct Speech	Indirect Speech
	“Let’s play chess”, said	Nick suggested playing
	Nick.	chess.
	“All right”, said Pete.	Pete agreed.
	“Oh, no”, said Mike.	Mike refused.

Exercise 1. Open the brackets:

1. My friend asked me who (is playing, was playing) the piano in the sitting room. 2. He said he (will come, would come) to see me off. 3. I was sure he (posted, had posted) the letter. 4. I think the weather (will be, would be) fine next week. I hope it (will not change, would not change) for the worse.

5.I asked my sister to tell me what she (has seen, had seen) at the museum.

6.He asked me where I (study, studied). 7. I thought that I (shall finish, should finish) my homework at that time. 8. He says he (works, worked) at school two years ago. 9. He says that he (knows, knew) the laws of the country. 10. We heard that he (is painting, was painting) a new picture.

Exercise 2. Change the sentences from Direct into Indirect Speech.

I.1. “Please bring me some fish soup,” he said to the waitress. 2. “Don’t worry over such a small thing,” she said to me. 3. “Promise to come and see me,” said Jane to Alice. 4. Father said to me: “Ring me up tomorrow.” 6. “Don’t eat too much ice cream,” said Mike’s mother to him.

7.“Take this book and read it,” said the librarian to the boy. 8. “Don’t sit up late,” said the doctor to Mary. 9. “Buy some meat in the shop,” said my mother to me. 10. He said to us: “Come here tomorrow.”

II.1. He said: “I have just received a letter from my uncle”. 2. “I am going to the theatre tonight,” he said to me. 3. Mike said to her: “I shall do it today if I have time.” 4. He said to her: “I spoke to Mr. Brown this morning.” 5. I said to them: “I can give you his address.” 6. He said: “I haven’t seen my cousin today.” 7. Tom said: “I have already had breakfast, so I am not hungry.” 8. Misha said: “I saw them at my parent’s house last year.” 9. Oleg said: “My room is on the second floor.” 10. “You have not done your homework well,” said the teacher to me.

III.1. He said to her: “Where do you usually spend your summer holidays?” 2. Ann said to Mike: “When did you leave London?” 3. She said to Boris: “When will you be back home?” 4. Boris said to them: “How can

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I get to the railway station?” 5. Mary asked Tom: “What time will you come here tomorrow?” 6. She asked me: “Why did you come here yesterday?” 7. She asked me: “What will you do tomorrow if you are not busy at your office?” 8. I said to him: “How long are you going to stay there?” 9. I said to him: “How long will it take you to get there?” 10. I said to Mike: “When will your father come home?”

IV. 1. I said to Mike: “Have you packed your suitcase?” 2. I said to Kate: “Did anybody meet you at the station?” 3. I asked Tom: “Have you had breakfast?” 4. I asked my sister: “Will you go for a walk after dinner?” 5. I said to the man: “Are you living at the hotel?” 6. He said to me : “Do you often go to see your friends?” 7. She said to me: “Have you sent them a telegram?” 8. She said to me: “Did you send them a telegram yesterday?” 9.He said to us: “Did you go to the museum this morning?” 10. I said to her: “Can you give me their address?”

V. 1. “I shall go to see my friend tomorrow,” said Kate. “Will you go with me?” “Yes, I shall,” said Pete. 2. “Let’s play badminton,” said Mike. “All right,” said Nina. 3. “There is a new film on at our cinema,” said Lena. “Let’s go and see it.” “No, I can’t,” said Mike. “I shall be busy.” 4. My brother said: “In two hours I shall have finished my work and then I shall go to the cinema.” Then he said to me: “Let’s go together.” “All right,” I said. 5. Nellie said: “Yesterday I went to see Paul, but he was not at home.” “Let’s go to see him today,” said Nick. “I think he will be at home.” “No,” said Nellie, “I can’t go today, I am very busy.” 6. “I haven’t seen him since last year,” said Lena, “and I think he has grown. Let’s go and see him tomorrow,” “All right,” said I. “It will be interesting to talk to him.”

VI. 1. Mary asked: “Where does John live?” 2. Helen said to me: “How long have you lived here?”

3. John said to me: “Wait five minutes for me.” 4. She asked: “Did you see this movie?” 5. The teacher said to us: “Don’t write in pencil.” 6. I asked her: “Where is it?” 7. He begged me: “Please send the money immediately.” 8. She said to him: “Do you like my new hat?” 9. Paul said: “We shall have to discuss this text tomorrow.” 10. Alec asked me: “Have you ever been to the National Gallery?” “Yes, I have,” said I. “I visited it last year when we were staying in London.” “Let’s go to Finland for the winter holidays,” said Alec. “No,” said I. “I have already been to Finland. Let’s go to Greece.” “All right,” said Alec.