Guiding questions: passive voice and causative structures

  • How do we form the passive voice? Which other verb can we use instead of be?
  • What verbs cannot be passive?
  • When and why is the passive voice preferred over the active voice?
  • What is the agent of an action? When is it not mentioned in a passive sentence?
  • When and how can the passive voice be used with reporting verbs?
  • What is a causative structure?

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