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5 Tenses which Need a Second Clause - Two FREE Printable Worksheets

5 Tenses which Need a Second Clause – Two FREE Printable Worksheets

5 Tenses which Need a Second Clause – Two FREE Printable Worksheets

There are five tenses in English which require a second clause: Past Continuous, Past Perfect, and Past Perfect Continuous usually provide background information for a Past Simple clause, e.g.

pa con:
pa perf:
pa p.c.
I was driving to my parents’ home because I needed to borrow some tools.
I had driven to my parents’ home
but they weren’t in.
I had been driving to my parents’ home
when my car suddenly broke down.

The exasperated reply to each statement without a second clause might be: “So, what happened?”

In Future Perfect and Future Perfect Continuous it is usual to indicate the other time in a second clause:

fu perf:
fu p.c.
I will have made lunch by the time you read this message.
I will have been making lunch for two hours
when you get here.

Complete the sentences below with the given tense and conjunction or relative pronoun using the indicated topic. Then say which category the joining word belongs to.

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5 Tenses which Need a Second Clause – Part 1

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5 Tenses which Need a Second Clause – Part 2

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Practice Passive Voice in Future Tenses - FREE Printable Worksheet

Practice Passive Voice in Future Tenses – FREE Printable Worksheet

Practice Passive Voice in Future Tenses

Passive voice = BE + PAST PARTICIPLE (3rd form).

Passive voice actions are done by people who are unknown or unimportant.

In future tenses and forms, passive voice is made as follows:

  • Future Simple Passive: The movie will be edited.
  • Future Continuous Passive: The movie will be being edited.
  • Future Perfect Passive: The movie will have been edited.
  • Future Perfect Continuous Passive: The movie will have been being edited. (rare)
  • First Conditional Passive: If the movie is edited, we will plan a release date.
  • Second Conditional Passive: If the movie were edited by Jo, it would look good.
  • Mixed Conditional Passive 1 (fut/past): If she weren’t busy soon, it would’ve been edited by Jo.
  • Mixed Conditional Passive 2 (past/fut): If it had been edited, it would be ready next week.
  • Modal Future Passive: The movie could / would / has to / might be edited.
  • going to (future): The movie is going to be edited by Jo.

We normally use passive voice in formal spoken and written contexts. We don’t normally use it to talk about everyday informal actions, e.g. I watched a film today. = A film was watched [by me] today.

Passive voice is most often seen / heard in the following contexts:

A. business English
B. creative arts
C. production
D. crime and punishment
E. natural disasters
F. invention / discovery
G. historical events
H. life story / obituary

Write sentences using the prompts. Embellish where possible. Say which context they belong to A-H:


Practice Passive Voice in Future Tenses

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