{"id":73627,"date":"2020-04-02T04:13:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T04:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73627"},"modified":"2020-04-02T04:13:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T04:13:57","slug":"when-to-use-the-passive-verb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/when-to-use-the-passive-verb\/","title":{"rendered":"When To Use The Passive Verb"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Choice of passive structures<\/h2>\n<p>We use\u00a0<b>passive structures\u00a0<\/b>when we want to talk about an action, but are not interested in stating who or what does\/did it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Promises\u00a0<b>should be kept.\u00a0<\/b>(passive)<\/li>\n<li>Smoking\u00a0<b>must be banned.\u00a0<\/b>(passive)<\/li>\n<li>This house\u00a0<b>was built<\/b>\u00a0in 1990.<\/li>\n<li>The house<b>\u00a0is being painted<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some verbs can be used in both active and passive forms with similar meanings. Examples are:\u00a0<b>to worry\/to be worried; to drown\/to be drowned.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes\u00a0active and passive infinitives\u00a0can be used with very similar meanings.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is a lot of\u00a0<b>work to do.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>There is a lot of\u00a0<b>work to be done.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choice of passive structures We use\u00a0passive structures\u00a0when we want to talk about an action, but are not interested in stating who or what does\/did it. Promises\u00a0should be kept.\u00a0(passive) Smoking\u00a0must be banned.\u00a0(passive) This house\u00a0was built\u00a0in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[2418,771,44],"class_list":["post-73627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-active-or-passive","tag-active-voice","tag-passive-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73628,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73627\/revisions\/73628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}