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Infinitive Forms and Passive Voice

The document discusses different types of infinitives in English including simple, progressive, perfect, and passive forms. It provides examples of transformations between active and passive voice constructions involving various tenses. For instance, using the present tense "People say Mark goes to school every day" can become the passive construction "Mark is said to go to school every day". Similarly, other examples show how sentences can be transformed between active and passive voice using different infinitive forms depending on the tense.

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Infinitive Forms and Passive Voice

The document discusses different types of infinitives in English including simple, progressive, perfect, and passive forms. It provides examples of transformations between active and passive voice constructions involving various tenses. For instance, using the present tense "People say Mark goes to school every day" can become the passive construction "Mark is said to go to school every day". Similarly, other examples show how sentences can be transformed between active and passive voice using different infinitive forms depending on the tense.

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Different types of infinitives:

TO GO
TO BE GOING
TO BE STOLEN
TO HAVE GONE
TO HAVE BEEN STOLEN
TO HAVE BEEN GOING

(simple, present inf.)


(progressive inf.)
(present passive inf.)
(perfect inf.)
(perfect passive inf.)
(perfect progressive inf.)

Present + Present Present Passive + Present inf.


People say Mark goes to school every day. Mark is said to go to school every day.
Present + Present Continuous Present Passive + Progressive inf.
People say Mark is going to school. Mark is said to be going to school.
Present + Past Present Passive + Perfect inf.
People say Mark went to school. Mark is said to have gone to school.
Present + Past Continuous Present Passive + Perfect Progressive inf.
People say Mark was going to school. Mark is said to have been going to school.
Everyone knows Mark was stealing money from his boss.
Mark is known to have been stealing money from his boss.
Money is known to have been stolen by Mark from his boss.
Present + Present Perfect Present Passive + Perfect inf.
People say Mark has gone to school. Mark is said to have gone to school.
Present + Present Perfect Continuous Present Passive + Perf. Progress. inf.
People say Mark has been going to school. Mark is said to have been going to school.
Present + Past Perfect Present Passive + Perfect inf.
People say Mark had gone to school. Mark is said to have gone to school.
Present + Past Perfect Continuous Present Passive + Perfect Progressive inf.
People say Mark had been going to school. Mark is said to have been going to school.
Past + Past Past Passive + Present inf.
People said Mark went to school. Mark was said to go to school.
Past + Past Continuous Past Passive + Progressive inf.
People said Mark was going to school. Mark was said to be going to school.
Past + Past Perfect Past Passive + Perfect inf.
People said Mark had gone to school. Mark was said to have gone to school.
Past + Past Perfect Continuous Past Passive + Perfect Progressive inf.
People said Mark had been going to school. Mark was said to have been going to
school.

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