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Passive Sentence Beatles Main Topic Test Tenses Active

Question The Beatles _____________ (to know) all over the world.
A are being knowing
B are known
C known
D have been known
Answer b
Remark We use the passive when the main topic of the sentence isn’t who did the action. In the test sentence the main topic is ‘The Beatles’. In English we tend to put the most important thing at the start of the sentence.We make the passive using ‘be’ (in a suitable tense) + the past participle: be + done. The passive can be used with all tenses - the form of ‘be’ changes. We use passive forms of tenses in the same way as we use their active equivalents. The test sentence ‘The Beatles _____________ (to know) all over the world.’ can be transformed to its active voice equivalent ‘All over the world, people know the Beatles.’ (the present simple),therefore, we choose ANSWER 2 – ‘are known’.

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