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?