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81 Mohammad Mahfooz HussainWhere to use it?The use of active infinitive in a %u201cThere is/are%u201d sentence, it strongly implies that the people involved in the conversation are the ones who have to do the work. It feels like a direct %u201cto-do list%u201d (probably for the speaker), while the passive infinitive completely detach the action from any specific person. It stops being a %u201cto-do list%u201d and becomes a purely objective status report.It is highly useful in formal or academic writing when stating that an action must happen, while making it clear that who will actually perform the action is irrelevant or unknown.VI. Passive voice with gerunds:As it can be studied in my book %u201cThe Continuous Enigma: Demystifying Participles and Gerunds%u201d that gerund can be used in four different places, but while studying about passive changes, it must be remembered that only two places are there that can rightly be classified as perfect candidate for passive voice i.e. Gerund as a Direct Object and Gerund as the Object of a Preposition.TYPE 1: Gerund as a Direct Object (Verbs of Emotion, Memory, or Avoidance):This structure occurs when the gerund phrase acts as the direct object of specific transitive verbs (such as love, hate, like, enjoy, avoid, remember, resent, or mind).