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What is the meaning of these grammatical forms involving “werden”?
Reading a book recently, I find myself wondering often about the usage of "werden" in many contexts, such as in these examples:
(talking about a group of people smoking from a common pipe): Sam ...
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What grammar form is “Es muss gemacht worden sein”?
I thought the following sentence was Perfekt Passive mit Modalverb (PPmMV):
Es muss gemacht worden sein.
But I just found a book which says that "PPmMV" is:
Es hat gemacht werden müssen.
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What's this structure called?
I don't understand the structure used in this exercise:
What's it called?
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Is “Mitteilungen werden nicht gelesen” passive?
I know who would've been reading the email, there isn't an unknown agent; so is "Mitteilungen werden nicht gelesen" strictly correct?
This was sent to me as an 'out of office' email response.
