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contracted form of not follows immediately after the auxiliary. Contractions are oftenused in spoken English. For example:Without ContractionsWere you not shown the sights?Is she not being shown the sights?Will he not have been shown the sights?Should we not be shown the sights?With ContractionsWeren"t you shown the sights?Isn"t she being shown the sights?Won"t he have been shown the sights?Shouldn"t we be shown the sights?See Exercise 3.4. Changing the voice of a verbWhen the verb of a sentence is changed from the Active Voice to the Passive Voice andthe other words in the sentence are left unaltered, a change in meaning results. In thefollowing examples, the verbs are underlined.e.g. Active Voice: He is driving to the airport.Passive Voice: He is being driven to the airport.The person referred to by the subject of the first sentence is behaving actively; theperson is doing the driving. The person referred to by the subject of the secondsentence is behaving passively; someone else is doing the driving.Using the first person singular of the verb to show as an example, the followi ng tablecompares the most commonly used tenses of the Indicative Mood of the Passive Voicewith the corresponding tenses of the Active Voice.Tense Active Voice Passive VoiceSimple Present I show I am shownNegative Statement: I do not show I am not shownPresent Continuous I am showing I am being shownPresent Perfect I have shown I have been shownSimple Past I showed I was shownNegative Statement: I did not show I was not shownPast Continuous I was showing I was being shownPast Perfect I had shown I had been shownSimple Future I will show I will be shownFuture Perfect I will have shown I will have been shownSimple, with would I would show I would be shown

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