Langue anglaise · Ethics in Business

Passive voice (simple & continuous) to express result

The present passive, simple and continuous, puts the result first

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Le contenu académique est en arabe, comme au BAC et comme dans l’application.

Ce que le programme attend de toi

  • Present simple passive and present continuous passive
  • Choosing passive to foreground the result/object over the agent

La méthode

  1. Passive = be + past participle; keep tense on 'be', not on the main verb

Les erreurs fréquentes

  • Forgetting 'be' (X counterfeited instead of X is counterfeited)
  • Wrong past participle form

Extrait du cours

A journalist looks into a stall selling a fake watch stamped with a famous logo. She has no idea who makes it, only that copies like it appear every month.

Le vocabulaire

  • is counterfeited (يُقلَّد)
  • is being investigated (يجري التحقيق فيه)

Ce qui n’est pas au programme

  • Past passive forms (treated in Education in the World, present passive)

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