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A Coward

Guy de Maupassant
He was called Handsome Signoles by the society. His name was Viscount Gontran-Joseph de Signoles.
An orphan, and possessed of an adequate income, he cut a dash, as the saying is. A good figure and a good carriage is obtained by him, a sufficient flow of words to pass for wit, a certain natural grace, an air of nobility and pride, a gallant mustache and an eloquent eye, attributes which women like.
He was in demand in drawing-rooms, sought after for vales, and in men he inspired that smiling hostility which is reserved for vital and attractive rivals. He had been suspected of several love-affairs of a sort calculated to create a good opinion of a youngster. He lived a happy, care-free life, in the most complete well-being of body and mind. He was known to be a fine swordsman and a still finer shot with the pistol.
"When I come to fight a duel," he would say, "I shall choose pistols. With that weapon, I'm sure of killing my man."
One evening, the theater was entered by him and two ladies, quite young, friends of his, whose husbands were also of the party, and after the performance they were invited by him to take ices at Tortoni's.
They had been sitting there for a few minutes when a gentleman was noticed by him at a neighboring table staring obstinately at one of the ladies of the party. She seemed embarrassed and ill at ease, and bent her head. At last she said to her husband:
"There's a man staring at me. I don't know him; do you?"

examples of active and passive voice implemented in a sentence

 ACTIVE VOICE:

1.Active: SHOULD HAVE / SHOULDN'T HAVE
The students should have learned the verbs.
2.Active: BE SUPPOSED TO
I am supposed to type the composition.
3.Active: HAS TO / HAVE TO
She has to practice English every day.

4.Active: MUST / MUST NOT
Tourists must apply for a passport to travel abroad.
5.Active: HAD BETTER / HAD BETTER NOT
Students had better practice English every day.

PASSIVE VOICE :
1.Passive: SHOULD HAVE / SHOULDN'T HAVE
The verbs should have been learned by the students.

2.Passive: BE SUPPOSED TO
The composition is supposed to be typed by me.


3.Passive: HAS TO / HAVE TO
English has to be practiced every day.

4.Passive: MUST / MUST NOT
A passport to travel abroad must be applied for.

5.Passive: HAD BETTER / HAD BETTER NOT
English had better be practiced every day by students.

active and passive voice

Everyone uses active and passive voice everyday, but most people still can't differentiate the difference between active and passive voice.On this opportunity i will try to explain what i know about active and passive voice.

What Is Active Voice?

I'll start with active voice because it's simpler. In an active sentence, the subject object of the sentence. is doing the action. A straightforward example is the sentence "Steve loves Amy." Steve is the subject, and he is doing the action: he loves Amy, the

Another example is the title of the Marvin Gaye song “I Heard It through the Grapevine.” "I" is the subject, the one who is doing the action. "I" is hearing "it," the object of the sentence.

What Is Passive Voice?

In passive voice, the target of the action gets promoted to the subject position. Instead of saying, "Steve loves Amy," I would say, "Amy is loved by Steve." The subject of the sentence becomes Amy, but she isn't doing anything. Rather, she is just the recipient of Steve's love. The focus of the sentence has changed from Steve to Amy.

If you wanted to make the title of the Marvin Gaye song passive, you would say “It was heard by me through the grapevine,” not such a catchy title anymore.

Is "To Be" a Sign of a Passive Sentence?

A lot of people think all sentences that contain a form of the verb “to be” are in passive voice, but that isn't true. For example, the sentence "I am holding a pen" is in active voice, but it uses the verb “am,” which is a form of “to be.” The passive form of that sentence is "The pen is being held by me."

Notice that the subject, the pen, isn't doing anything in that sentence. It's not taking an action; it's passive. One clue that your sentence is passive is that the subject isn't taking a direct action.

The active voice is the "normal" voice. This is the voice that we use most of the time. You are probably already familiar with the active voice. In the active voice, the object receives the action of the verb:

active	subject	verb	object
		>
	Cats	eat	fish.

The passive voice is less usual. In the passive voice, the subject receives the action of the verb:

passive	subject	verb	object
	<
	Fish	are eaten	by cats.

The object of the active verb becomes the subject of the passive verb:

	subject	verb	object
active	Everybody	drinks	water.
passive	Water	is drunk	by everybody.

 SIMPLE PRESENT and SIMPLE PAST
The active object becomes the passive subject.
am/is/are +  past participle
was/were + past participle

PRESENT and PAST CONTINUOUS (PROGRESSIVE)
Passive form: 
am/is/are + being + past participle
was/were + being + past participle

PRESENT PERFECT, PAST PERFECT and FUTURE PERFECT
Passive form: 
have/has been + past participle
had been + past participle

FUTURE TENSES
Passive forms: will + be + past participle
is/are going to be + past participle

PRESENT / FUTURE MODALS
The passive form follows this pattern:
modal + be + past participle

PAST MODALS
The past passive form follows this pattern:
modal + have been + past participle

Construction of the Passive Voice

The structure of the passive voice is very simple:

subject + auxiliary verb (be) + main verb (past participle)

The main verb is always in its past participle form.

Look at these examples:

subject	auxiliary verb (to be)		main verb (past participle)
Water	is		drunk	by everyone.
100 people	are		employed	by this company.
I	am		paid	in euro.
We	are	not	paid	in dollars.
Are	they		paid	in yen

Conjugation for the Passive Voice

We can form the passive in any tense. In fact, conjugation of verbs in the passive tense is rather easy, as the main verb is always in past participle form and the auxiliary verb is always be. To form the required tense, we conjugate the auxiliary verb. So, for example:

• present simple: It is made
• present continuous: It is being made
• present perfect: It has been made

Here are some examples with most of the possible tenses:

infinitive		to be washed
simple	present	It is washed.
	past	It was washed.
	future	It will be washed.
	conditional	It would be washed.
continuous	present	It is being washed.
	past	It was being washed.
	future	It will be being washed.
	conditional	It would be being washed.
perfect simple	present	It has been washed.
	past	It had been washed.
	future	It will have been washed.
	conditional	It would have been washed.
perfect continuous	present	It has been being washed.
	past	It had been being washed.
	future	It will have been being washed.
	conditional	It would have been being washed.