Is it correct to say "Do you know when the package is expected to be shipped?"?
What about When is the expected date for the package to be shipped?
Are there other ways to say this?
What is "is+past tense" (is expected) called?
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Is it correct to say "Do you know when the package is expected to be shipped?"?
What about When is the expected date for the package to be shipped?
Are there other ways to say this?
What is "is+past tense" (is expected) called?
Best Answer
Both of these are acceptable. The term you're looking for, I think, is passive voice since "is expected" and "to be shipped" are in the passive form of the verbs "to expect" and "to ship":
To answer your question about other ways to say this, the passive form of the verb sounds somewhat more polite than the active form. If you don't care about politeness, you can use the active voice:
or even more direct:
There are, of course, many other verbs you can use to express the same concept:
And so on.
Final note: In your second sentence "expected" is not the past tense of "to expect". It's the adjective form of "expect" that modifies the noun "date": "the expected date"