The Passive Voice (страдательный залог): Образование

Corporate Responsibility

Market research shows that many consumer are ethical consumers, they expect the companies they buy from to behave responsibly. Most ethical consumer have high spending power so companies usually listen to them and will promise, for example, not to use child labour or to pollute the environment. A recent report showed that many companies have ethical policies which cover areas such as payment on time, product policy and the environment. Some companies have a policy of paying first world price for third world goods from developing countries – they pay more because they think the workers and the economies of developing countries need support.

Every company should have these responsibilities:

1. There should be good communication between the company and its workforce.

2. The company should pay supplies on time.

3. It should train its employees.

4. It should try to protect and improve the environment.

5. It should make a profit so it can pay dividends to its shareholders and continue to provide jobs for its workforce.

The Passive Voice (страдательный залог): Образование

The Passive Voice показывает, что лицо или предмет, обозначенные подлежащим, являются объектами действия, выраженного сказуемым:

· She was woken from her sleep by his singing. - Она была разбужена его пением.

Образование

The Passive Voice образуется при помощи вспомогательного глагола to be в соответствующем времени, лице и числе и причастия прошедшего времени смыслового глагола Participle II:

The Passive Voice

to be + Participle II

Таблица времен английского глагола в страдательном залоге напечатана в приложении на

Passive Voice	Present	Past	Future
Indefinite Continuous Perfect Perfect Continuous	am/are/is given am/are/is being given has/have been given -	was/were given was/were being given had been given -	shall/will be given - shall/will have been given -

Например:

Active

Passive

Mary helps John. - Мэри помогает Джону. Mary helped John. - Мэри помогла Джону. Mary will help John. - Мэри поможет Джону. Mary is helping John. - Мэри помогает Джону. Mary was helping John. - Мэри помогала Джону. Mary has helped John. - Мэри помогла Джону. Mary had helped John before Mother came. - Мэри помогла Джону до прихода мамы. Mary will have helped John. - Мэри поможет Джону.

John is helped by Mary. - Джону помогает Мэри. John was helped by Mary. - Джону помогла Мэри. John will be helped by Mary. - Джону поможет Мэри. John is being helped by Mary. - Джону (сейчас) помогает Мэри. John was being helped by Mary. - Джону помогала Мэри. John has been helped by Mary. - Джону помогла Мэри. John had been helped by Mary before Mother came. - Джону помогла Мэри до прихода мамы. John will have been helped by Mary. - Джону поможет Мэри.