Thread: Active & Passive voice
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Old 16-Jun-2006, 03:33
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Default Re: Active & Passive voice
They are both in the simple present tense. What makes the second passive is that the verb shopwing the tense is the auxiliary verb 'be' and the lexical part of the verb is in the past participle.
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