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A2, B1, FOCUS, PASSIVES / accessed, accompanied, adding, amazed, ambulance, amended, amount, appointed, approved, attended, based, bias, bound, by, calculated, calling, caused, clicking, compensated, completed, complicated, considered, contacting, council, created, destroyed, determined, disabled, dividing, enabled, explained, fact, fire, followed, funded, governed, higher, hit, inserting, it, joined, killed, law, laws, meant, national, news, notified, obtained, out, owned, PELIC, pitch, president, protected, punished, ranked, reached, reduced, regarded, replaced, required, results, selected, size, southern, striking, struck, succeeded, supported, surprised, survived, term, terms, variety, VB, vehicle, virus, VVN, widow

In the English Grammar Profile, A2 point 2 in the category of PASSIVES : ‘BY’ to add information about something already known. B1 point 12 in the category of PASSIVES is defined as: passive with ‘by’ to give focus. All the A2 examples use the pronoun IT  + is|was + past participle  + by The one …

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B1, NEGATIVE, PASSIVES, PRESENT, simple / accepted, advised, allowed, am, approved, are, based, broken, built, called, charged, checked, completed, connected, considered, counted, covered, created, designed, displayed, expected, fixed, held, included, installed, intended, is, limited, located, lost, meant, mentioned, not, offered, permitted, prepared, protected, provided, received, recognized, recommended, registered, removed, required, satisfied, saved, selected, set, shared, sold, supported, tied, VB, VVN, XX

B1 Point 10 in the category of PASSIVES is defined as: PRESENT SIMPLE, NEGATIVE + range of pronoun and noun subjects *although ‘range of subjects’ is mentioned above, there is no entry for present simple negative elsewhere. There is no way to automatically check whether  these might actually be C1: ‘it’ with the passive voice …

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B1, infinitive, MODALITY, necessity, obligation, PASSIVES / added, connected, considered, continue, designed, discovered, expected, fixed, going, have, installed, need, needed, protected, reminded, removed, replaced, to, updated, want

Here’s an example of an infinitive passive structure. He said it was the summation of the parts working together in such a way that nothing needed to be added, taken away, or altered. listen The English Grammar Profile B1 point 4 in the category of passives is defined as: an infinitive after a limited number of forms including ‘going to’, ‘have to’, ‘need to’, ‘want to’. *Note that Pearson lists this as: GSE 59 B2 …

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