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The passive voice is a syntactic structure used to shift the focus from the agent of an action to the recipient or the action itself. Its formation requires specific changes in the verb phrase. Regarding the use of the passive voice in English, mark the CORRECT alternative.

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B) The passive voice is formed by using the appropriate tense of the auxiliary verb "be" followed by the past participle of the main verb, being particularly common in formal or scientific writing.

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A) The use of the "get-passive" (e.g., "they got married") is highly recommended in formal academic dissertations as a substitute for the verb "be" to avoid repetition of auxiliary forms.

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C) The transformation of a sentence from active to passive voice requires that the direct object of the active sentence becomes the auxiliary verb of the new passive structure. 11

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D) In sentences with two objects (direct and indirect), only the direct object can become the subject of the passive sentence, making the indirect object remain in its original position after the verb.

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E) Intransitive verbs, such as "happen", "rise", and "sleep", can be freely transformed into the passive voice provided that the agent is identified by the prepositional phrase started by "by".

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