Passive Voice 3

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Special passive voice forms
1.Passive form with verbs followed by two objects.Forma passivacon verbi seguiti da due complementi:
When a verb is followed both by an indirect object and a direct one, theindirect object will be the subject of the passive voice sentence.Quando unverbo è seguito da un complemento di termine e da un complemento oggetto,il complemento di termine diventerà il soggetto della frase passiva:Active: We gave the police the information.Passive: The
police
were given the information.It’also possible (but rarely used): the
information
was given to the police.
I was offered
the job but I refused it. (= they offered me the job)
Mary was offered
a bunch of flowers. (Someone offered Mary a bunch of flowers.)
2.Passive voice with personal and impersonal forms ( referring toverbs such as: believe, expect, fear, know, report, say, think, understand, consider, allege…).Voce passiva con forme personali eimpersonali ( con riferimento a verbi come:believe, expect, fear,know, report, say, think, understand, consider, allege…):
Steve is very old. Nobody knows exactly how old he is:
a.It is said that he 
is 98 years old. (impersonal form)
b.He is said to be 
98 years old. (Personal form, more common)
Mr Bean is believed to live
in Scotland.
It is believed that
Mr. Bean lives inScotland.3.
We use have something done to say that we arrange for somebodyelse to do something for us.
 
Have something done corrisponde al verbofare seguito da un verbo con funzione passiva per indicare cheincarichiamo qualcun altro di fare qualcosa per noi.
Tom ha lavato la macchina:a.
Tom washed
his car. (Tom washed it himself)b.
Tom had his car washed
. (Tom arranged for somebody else to wash it)
You can also say “get something done” instead of “have somethingdone” (mainly in informal spoken English).
Si può anche usare “getsomething done” al posto di “have something done” (soprattutto nell’inglesecolloquiale).
Tom got his car washed
.Mi sono tagliati i capelli ieri.
I had/got my hair cut
yesterday. (I arranged for somebody else to cut myhair)I cut my hair yesterday (I did it myself)

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