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present perfect passive The house has been sold.

1 have been seen you have been seen he/she/it has been seen etc
have 1been seen? have you been seen ? has he/she/it been seen ? etc

H
1 have not been seen you have not been seen he/she/it has not been seen etc
B
For contractions [I've etc), see page 301.

We use the present perfect passive like the present perfect active (see pages 60-65), to talk about past
actions and events which are important now - for example, when we give people news.

The house on the corner has been sold. We haven't been invited to Anna's party.

6 News: put the verbs into the present perfect passive.

► A new university in Kew today by the Prince of Wales, (open)

1 Lord Retlaw..........................................................for drunk driving. (arrest)
2 An old painting from a school in Wales..........................................................for $250,000
by an American museum, [buy)
3 An 18-year-old soldier....................................................... in an accident in Devon, [kill)
4 The two lost children..........................................................alive and well in a London park, [find)
5 An unknown actor..........................................................to star in the new film of'Macbeth', [choose)
6 The old hospital in the town centre..........................................................[close)
7 'What's the problem?''My bicycle ’[steal)

8 I ..........................................................to write something for the local newspaper, [ask)
9 All the papers for next week's meeting........................................................ [lose)
10 Everybody in the class..........................................................to Stacey's party, [invite)

Q 'It's never been done.' Make a sentence for each picture.

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In some answers, both contracted forms (for example I'm, don't) and full PASSIVES 99
forms (for example lam, do not) are possible. Normally both are correct.