Verb Forms

Verb Forms

Postby Pere Margalef » Fri Dec 08, 2017 9:54 am

PRESENT PERFECT
The Times
A Spanish judge has lifted the extradiction order on the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont.
Daily Express
Experts have discovered a monster Black Hole.

PRESENT PERFECT PASSIVE
BBC News online
Brexit talks: Te UK has been keen to open talks on a new on a new free trade deal as soon as possible.
New York Times
San Francisco: Bitcoin has been in a bull market like few the world has never seen.

PAST SIMPLE PASSIVE
BBC News online
Norwich's Christma's fair: The BBC was given ewclusive acces to film a flight throug the tunnel of light.
BBC News online
Italian man poisoned family members: Mr Del Zoto was detained in the Monza, after police reportedly found recepts on his computer.
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Re: Verb Forms

Postby Admin » Thu Dec 21, 2017 8:40 am

Thesea are all good examples Pere except the present perfect passive. Examples would be: has been given, has been opened, has been discovered etc.
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Re: Verb Forms

Postby Pere Margalef » Thu Dec 28, 2017 11:06 am

Thanks Pieter. I saw that the owners do not match with the present perfect passive.
Sorry, I had to fix. I run too.
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Re: Verb Forms

Postby Josep Fàbregas » Fri May 04, 2018 2:54 pm

Present perfect

The Uttar Pradesh government has also announced that families of the dead will receive 400,000 rupees ($6,000; £4,400) as compensation.

I've been in office for 20 years and this is the worst I've seen," Hemant Gera, secretary for disaster management and relief in Rajasthan, told the BBC.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed officials to personally monitor relief operations.

Present perdfect passive

A man who stabbed his boss to death and wrote "bully" on her forehead has been jailed for life and ordered to serve at least 28 years.

At least 100 people have been killed and scores more injured in fierce dust storms that hit the northern Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.

Officials said they had been taken aback by the ferocity of the storms.

Past simple passive

The court was told he had gone to her house for dinner and reacted with anger when she rejected him.

David Browning, 52, of Seaford, was found guilty of murder at Hove Crown CoBrowning had formed an intense attachment to the 46-year-old Brighton university payroll boss, jurors heard.urt on Wednesday.

Palmer was described as "dangerous" when he was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Mr Wrighton, whose injuries were so severe police initially thought he had been killed by an animal.

A letter from a Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust psychiatrist said Palmer was told to "get rid" of the weapons and would "hopefully" comply.
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Re: Verb Forms

Postby Josep Fàbregas » Fri May 04, 2018 3:00 pm

Sorry, It's a mistake, I've attached my sentences as a reply.
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