Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Structure
TO BE + PAST PARTICIPLE
Examples:
The exercise is done everyday.
The exercise was done yesterday.
The exercise is being done now.
The exercise was being done when I arrived.
The exercise will be done.
The exercise is going to be done.
The exercise has been done.
The exercise must be done.
The exercise could be done.
The exercise would be done, if they had time.
One hundred years ago, few man wore wristwatches: but the
Rolex company based in Switzerland since 1908 changed all
that. They gave us the first wristwatches, to show the date, the
first diving watches, the first sports watch, the first watch to
show different time zones... And now Rolex watches (with
prices that range from $3,000 to $20,000) are worn as a status
symbol all over the world.
The famous face which is seen at more than 9,000 KFC restaurants worldwide actually
belonged to a real person: Colonel Harland Sanders. At different times he was a soldier,
an insurance agent, a tire salesman and worked in his parents petrol station. When he
saw people were more interested in his home-made food than the petrol he was selling,
he decided to open his first restaurant in Utah, USA, in the early 1950s. Colonel Sanders
is also remembered for organizing the biggest party in history about 35,000 people
attended his seventy-ninth birthday in 1970.
Some curiosities:
Lets practice:
Choose the best form (active or passive) to complete the
sentences:
a.The disposable razor invented / was invented by King
Camp Gillette.
b. Hungarian journalist Lszlo Biro invented / was invented
the worlds first ballpoint pen in the 1930s.
c. The DVD player is now the worlds number one
entertainment product. The first one manufactured / was
manufactured in 1997.
d. In 2003, Google voted / was voted the worlds most
popular Internet search engine.