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appendix 2 active and passive verb forms

ACTIVE PASSIVE:TENSE OF BE + PAST PARTICIPLE

INFINITIVE (to) watch (to) write (to) be watched (to) be written

-ING FORM watching writing being watched being written

SIMPLE PRESENT 1 watch 1write 1am watched It is written

PRESENT PROGRESSIVE 1am watching 1am writing 1am being watched It is being written

SIMPLE PAST 1watched 1wrote 1was watched It was written

PAST PROGRESSIVE 1was watching 1 was writing 1was being watched It was being written

PRESENT PERFECT 1have watched 1have written 1have been watched It has been written

PAST PERFECT 1had watched 1had written 1had been watched It had been written

WILL FUTURE 1 will watch 1will write 1will be watched It will be written

GOING TO FUTURE 1am going 1am going 1am going to It is going to
to watch to write be watched be written

MODAL VERBS 1 can watch 1can write 1can be watched It can be written

1must watch 1must write 1must be watched It must be written

1should watch 1should write 1should be watched It should be written

etc etc etc etc
For the use of the different tenses, see Sections 2-5.
-» For the use of passives, see Section 7.
For the spelling of -ing forms, see page 23.
For the spelling of third-person present forms (writes, watches, sits, goes etc), see page 16.

appendix 3 capital letters (A, B, C etc)

We use CAPITAL LETTERS to begin the names of people, places, nationalities, languages, days,
months and holidays.
Abraham Lincoln New York American Arabic Thursday September Christmas

We also use CAPITAL LETTERS for the most important words in the titles of books, films etc.
War and Peace Gone with the Wind

And we use a CAPITAL LETTER for the first word in a sentence, and for the pronoun /.
Yesterday I went for a long bike ride.

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