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HOW TO USED THE PASSIVE
Passive     :                                                be                +               past participle He       is                   helped              by her. He       was                  helped              by her. He       will be              helped              by her. Example : a)    Rice is grown in India.     b)     Our house was built in 1980. c)    This olive oil was imported from Crete. Usually the passive is used without a by-phrase. The passive is most frequently used when it is not known or not important to know exactly who performs an action. In (a)     : Rice is grown in India by people, by farmers, by someone. It is not known or important to know exactly who grows rice in India.

Example : d)     This rug was made by my aunt.             That rug was made by my mother.     e)      Life on the Mississippi was written by Mark Twain. Sometimes, event when the speaker knows who performs an action, he/she chooses to use the passive with the by-phrase in order to focus attention on the subject of the sentence.

In (d)    : The focus of attention is on two rugs.

In (f)    : The focus in on the book, but the by-phrase is included because it contains important information.

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