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1. Their children are used to.....after school every day. they don't have to walk home.
A. picking up    B. being picked up        C. be picked up             D. pick up)

2. Mrss. Kerry didn't want...........on.
A. to be operated      B. being operated           C. to operate        D. to be operating)

- In the first sentence , after " Be used to " we also choose " Gerund " . But A and B are Gerund ( A is active , B is passive ) and the same as with second sentence ( A is passive , C is active , D is continuos ) . I wonder that if anyone can help me to answer this question , how to recognize active and passive ?

Ẩn danh · Accepted Answer

Passive constructions always use the auxiliary verb 'to be', so they will always have a part of that verb in them. Obviously it varies depending on the tense and person, so it could be 'am, is, are, was, be, been, will be, being', etc. Those are all different ways of saying 'to be'. 

I am kicked, I was kicked, I will be kicked, they are kicked, he is being kicked, she will be kicked, etc, are all passive. In active, they would be respectively:

I kick, I kicked, I will kick, I will kick, they kick, he is kicking, she will kick.

Ẩn danh · Answer

Active is doing something.
Passive is having something done to you.

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