Let's go; we ____ (wanted) here.
✅ are not wanted ❌ are not been wanted
- We need the present simple passive of the verb want: present simple of be (are) + past participle (wanted).
Five people ____ (injure) after a car crashed into a bus last night.
✅ were injured ❌ injured
- It is passive because we are saying what happened to the subject (five people).
Local authorities have informed that about 500,000 dollars ____ (steal) yesterday.
✅ were stolen ❌ was stolen
- It’s passive because we are saying what happened to the subject (almost 500,000 dollars).
Wine ____ (reach) the Balkans by c. 4500 BC.
✅ had reached ❌ reached
- We can use the past perfect with by + time expression (=before) to talk about events that had happened before that moment in the past.
- It’s in the active voice because we are saying what the subject (wine) had done (had reached).
We could ____ no-one to fix it.
✅ get ❌ have We can use the structures get + someone + to do something or have + someone + do something to talk about someone doing something for us.
You should have ____ (your car repaired) a long time ago.
✅ had your car repaired ❌your car repaired
- We can use have something done in any verb tense or form. Here we need a past modal because the meaning is past.
- The form of the past modal is should have + past participle. In this case we need the past participle of have: should have had something done.