Tag: to be
THE IMPERATIVE MOOD AND NON-FINITE FORMS OF “TO BE”
Here's the imperative mood form of to be in both affirmative and negative forms:
Conjugation of To Be in Perfect Tense
This table covers Present Perfect, Past Perfect, Future Perfect, and Future in the Past Perfect forms of “to be” in Indicative mood, with affirmative, question, and negative forms.
Conjugation of To Be in Continuous Tense
Here's the table with all forms of "to be" in Present Continuous, Past Continuous, Future Continuous, and Future in the Past Continuous Tense, in Indicative Mood, including affirmative, question, and negative forms, leaving the lines for Future and Future in the Past vacant:
Conjugation of To Be in Indefinite Tense
This table covers Present Simple, Past Simple, Future Simple, and Future in the Past forms of “to be” in Indicative mood, with affirmative, question, and negative forms:
The Group of Tenses of the Passive Voice
In the passive voice construction with to be and past participle, the focus is on the action being done to the subject, rather than the subject performing the action. This construction emphasizes the result or effect of the action, rather than who is doing the action. For example, in the sentence The cake was baked by the chef, the focus is on the cake and the fact that it was baked, rather than the chef who did the baking. This construction is useful when the doer of the action is unknown, unimportant, or when the speaker wants to emphasize the result of the action rather than who performed it.