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CBE 2.01 | A symbol of friendship: The Statue of Liberty | Language focus: the passive voice

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How to Make a Passive Verb

The way we make the passive is that we take the verb to be And we put it in whatever tense we're speaking in. The idea for the statue was developed around 1870 Exactly, yes, we already know who did it But in the next example of the passive, the project was managed by We do mention who managed this project, it was Édouard Rene de la Boulé Just another thing about the construction of the passive: there's no buy, we don't need a buy. In both these cases, we are using the simple past of theverb to be Exactly Okay, is there anything else that you want to look at in this sentence? I'm wondering about

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