NH intermediate unit 3

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NH intermediate unit 3

active and passive 

state and active verbs 

How do you form passive in English?

1. when the agent is not important
2. subject stays the same
3. subject becomes object
4. object becomes subject

Active to passive. Example

She likes sweets. 

Sweets are liked by her. 

Make passive:
We are constructing a new bridge.

We request the customers to refrain from smoking.

We employed a lot of HR managers.

Active and passive verbs 

Active verbs - indicate an activity

State verbs - cannot form ''ing'' tense 

Choose the correct sentence / sentences

1. Be quiet, I am thinking!
2. He is believed to be trustworthy.
3. She owes a fortune.
4. I'm enjoying myself. It is a great party.

Wrong or correct?
I am seeing a specialist tomorrow.

1. correct, it is an activity
2. wrong, ''see'' is a state verb in this sentence.

Wrong or correct?
I have been weighing up the pros and cons of this issue.

1. wrong, to ''weigh'' is a state verb
2. correct, to ''weigh'' means here to ''consider''(action verb)

irregular verbs 

Have you studied??? 

what are the irregular forms of the verb: ''liggen''

1. to lie / lay / laid
2. to lie/ laid/ lay
3. to lay/lain/lain
4. to lie/lay/lain

what are the irregular forms of the verb: ''leggen''

1. to lie / lay / laid
2. to lay/laid/laid
3. to lay/lain/lain
4. to lie/lay/lain

Is the verb: ''to lie'' (to tell a lie) regular or irregular in past tenses?

1. irregular, to lie/lay/lay
2. irregular, to lie/lied/lay
3. sometimes regular and sometimes irregular
4. regular, to lie / lied/lied