В пособии рассматриваются основные моменты английской грамматики: части речи имя существительное, имя прилагательное и наречие; видо-временные формы глагола; модальные глаголы; неличные формы глагола

get dressed/changed, get engaged/married/divorced, get started (=start)


5. Questions in the passive
Questions about the identity of the subject of an active verb are usually
expressed by an affirmative:
The traffic delayed me. What delayed you?
Our team won. Which team won?
Questions about the subject of a passive verb are also expressed by an
affirmative:
Something was done. What was done?
One of the houses was sold. Which of them was sold?
Interrogative verbs in active questions about the object become affirmative
verbs in passive questions:
Active What did they steal? (interrogative verb)
Passive What was stolen? (affirmative verb)
Conversely, affirmative verbs in active questions become interrogative verbs
in passive questions:
Active Who wrote it? (affirmative verb)
Passive Who was it written by? (interrogative verb)
Other types of question require interrogative verbs in both active and passive:
Active When/Where/Why did he paint it?
Passive When/Where/Why was it painted?

6. Uses of the Passive: Active or Passive

A. The choice between active and passive constructions often depends on what
has already been said, or on what the listener already knows. We usually like
to start sentences with what is already known, and to put ‘new’ information
later in the sentence.

Compare these examples:

Alexander Graham Bell Telephone
British inventor who went to live Apparatus with which people can
in Canada and then in the USA. talk to each other over long distances
Bell invented the telephone. The telephone was invented by Bell.

Now let’s compare these two sentences from the examples: