Question

Your sofa _____________ (to deliver) tomorrow. is delivered will be delivered We use the passive when we want to change the focus of a clause – (1) to focus on the action, or (2) to show interest in the person or object that experiences this action, or (3) if the doer of the verb is not important or not known or (4) if we do not want to say who the doer is. In English we tend to put the most important thing at the start of the sentence. In the test sentence ‘Your sofa _____________ (to deliver) tomorrow.’ the doer is not given, thus, the speaker wants to focus on the action itself or on the thing that experiences this action, and evidently, the doer is not important. 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. In the test sentence we are given the adverb of time ‘tomorrow’. And the adverbs of time like tomorrow, later today, in five minutes, in two hours, on Monday, on Saturday afternoon, next week/month indicate the future aspect. Therefore, we should use the Future form in this sentence. For forming the future simple passive we use the structure ‘the object of the sentence that is in the Active voice + will + be + the past participle’: The window will be opened.; The lesson will be learnt. Therefore, we are to choose ANSWER 3 – ‘will be delivered’. 1

Accepted Answer

3 was delivered delivers passive voice

Task	Your sofa _____________ (to deliver) tomorrow.
Answer	3
a	is delivered
b	was delivered
c	will be delivered
d	delivers
comment	We use the passive when we want to change the focus of a clause – (1) to focus on the action, or (2) to show interest in the person or object that experiences this action, or (3) if the doer of the verb is not important or not known or (4) if we do not want to say who the doer is. In English we tend to put the most important thing at the start of the sentence. In the test sentence ‘Your sofa _____________ (to deliver) tomorrow.’ the doer is not given, thus, the speaker wants to focus on the action itself or on the thing that experiences this action, and evidently, the doer is not important. 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. In the test sentence we are given the adverb of time ‘tomorrow’. And the adverbs of time like tomorrow, later today, in five minutes, in two hours, on Monday, on Saturday afternoon, next week/month indicate the future aspect. Therefore, we should use the Future form in this sentence. For forming the future simple passive we use the structure ‘the object of the sentence that is in the Active voice + will + be + the past participle’: The window will be opened.; The lesson will be learnt. Therefore, we are to choose ANSWER 3 – ‘will be delivered’.
topic	passive voice
level	1

Passive Doer Delivered Focus Action Sentence Future Sofa