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Year 6 English Modal verbs, the perfect form and the passive: summary and key words

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Skill	Method
Modal verb	A verb such as might, should, will or must that shows how sure the speaker is, or what should happen.
Modal adverb	An adverb such as perhaps, possibly or surely that shows a degree of possibility.
Perfect form	Has or have with the past participle: They have finished. She has written.
Subject and object	The subject does the action; the object receives it.
Passive	The object moves to the front, with was or were and the past participle, and by names the doer.
Active	The subject does the action: Workers built the house.
Focus	The passive can focus on the object, and leave out an unknown or unimportant doer.

modal verb: a verb, such as might or must, that works with another verb to show possibility or obligation
modal adverb: an adverb, such as perhaps or surely, that shows how certain something is
past participle: the form of a verb used after has, have or was, such as written or broken
perfect form: a verb form made with has or have and the past participle
subject: the person or thing that does the action of the verb
object: the person or thing that receives the action of the verb
active: a sentence where the subject does the action
passive: a sentence where the object is the subject, with was or were and the past participle
agent: the doer of the action in a passive sentence, named after by