Question

The Beatles _____________ (to know) all over the world. are being knowing known 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’. 1

Accepted Answer

2 are known have been known passive voice

Task	The Beatles _____________ (to know) all over the world.
Answer	2
a	are being knowing
b	are known
c	known
d	have been known
comment	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’.
topic	passive voice
level	1

Passive Sentence Beatles Main Topic Test Tenses Active