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§ 3. The use of tenses in the Passive Voice.

The uses of tenses in the Active and in the Passive Voice are I lie same.

Indefinite: Present New schools are built every year.

Past This school was built a month ago.

Future A new school will be built in our village in spring.

perfect: Present The school has been built this month.

Past The school had been built by the 1st of

September.

Future I am sure the school will have been built

By the 1st of September. Continuous: Present a new school is being built in our street.

Past When I returned to town, the school was

still being built.

All Forsytes have shells... in other words, they are never seen, or if seen would not be recognized. (Galsworthy)

The news was brought that the little boy at the “Three Castles” was ill. (Thackeray)

Further meetings will be held to-night and to-morrow night. (Daily Worker)

You have been told three times this week that she is coming home for a year for her health. (Shaw)

I have been very unhappy since she died. I have been slighted and taught nothing, -and thrown upon myself, and put to work not fit for me. (Dickens)

By 12 o’clock a jury reasonably satisfactory to both sides had been chosen. (Dreiser)

Don’t you disturb him. He is working at his wonderful poem. An immortal work of art is being created. (Marryat)

When Mills got to the stables, a horse was being saddled, (Eliot)

To express an action going on at a definite moment in the future only the Future Continuous Active" is possible. Thus the

Russian sentence ‘Когда вы придете в лабораторию, опыт уже будет производиться’ must be translated in the following way:

When you come to the laboratory, we shall already be making the experiment.

To denote an action which began before a definite moment in the present, past or future, and continued up to that moment, the Present, Past and Future Perfect Continuous Active are generally used.

Уже два часа как правят корректуру.

They have been reading the proofs for two hours.

Когда пришел главный редактор, корректуру правили уже два часа.

When the editor-in-chief came, they had been reading the proofs for two hours.

The Present Perfect Inclusive Passive and the Past Perfect Inclusive Passive are found with verbs not used in the Continuous form, in negative sentences and with some non-terminative verbs (see Chapter VII, Tenses, § 18, 21).

She has always been admired.

The dictionary has not been used for months.

§ 4. Ways of translating the Passive Voice into Russian.

There are three ways of translating the Passive Voice into Russian:

  1. by the verb быть + краткая форма причастия страдатель­ного залога. In the Present the verb быть is not used.

  2. By verbs in -ся.

  3. By means of indefinite-personal constructions (неопреде­ленно-личные предложения).

The last way of translating is possible only if the doer of the action is not mentioned.

Houses are built of stone.

Дома строятся из камня.

Дома строят из камня.

The house was built in 1932.

Дом (был) построен в 1932 году. «

Дом построили в 1932 году.

The experiment was made by a famous scientist.

Опыт был произведен знаменитым ученым.

Опыт производился знаменитым ученым.