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Found I Heard Place People Hear Find Infinitive

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You can say that something i_ to be seen, heard, or found in a particular place to mean that people can see it, hear it, or find it in that place.You can say that something is to be seen, heard, or found in a particular place to mean that people can see it, hear it, or find it in that place.
Little traffic was to be seen on the streets.
They are to be found all over the world.
word be
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verb
You use be with a present participle to form the continuous tenses of verbs.
This is happening in every school throughout the country.
She didn't always think carefully about what she was doing.
And, between my two lectures, I will be making a quick trip to Phoenix.
He had only been trying to help.
He's doing better than I am.
You use be with a past participle to form the passive voice.
Forensic experts were called in.
Her husband was killed in a car crash.
The cost of electricity from coal-fired stations is expected to fall.
Similar action is being taken by the U.S. government.
You use be with an infinitive to indicate that something is planned to happen, that it will definitely happen, or that it must happen.
The talks are to begin tomorrow.
It was to be Johnson's first meeting with the board in nearly a month.
You must take the whole project more seriously if you are to succeed.
You are to answer to Brian, to take your orders from him.
You use be with an infinitive to say or ask what should happen or be done in a particular situation, how it should happen, or who should do it.
What am I to do without him?
Who is to say which of them had more power?
What is to be done?
You use was and were with an infinitive to talk about something that happened later than the time you are discussing, and was not planned or certain at that time.
Then he received a phone call that was to change his life.
A few hours later he was to prove it.
You can say that something is to be seen, heard, or found in a particular place to mean that people can see it, hear it, or find it in that place.
Little traffic was to be seen on the streets.
They are to be found all over the world.
inflections amareisbeingwaswerebeen
cefr-level A1

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:a1

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