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Recently I've read a passage that seems to me is a passive without 'to be'.

Example:

The new bank will speed the acquisition of the materials needed for rebuilding the town.

Shouldn't the word needed have to be accompanied by a 'to be' element to make it a passive voice?

like this:

the new bank will speed the acquisition of the materials that are needed for rebuilding the town.

or is it a completely different grammar rule?

Chenmunka
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    This is an example of **whiz-deletion**: you are allowed to leave out *which is*, *which are*, *who is*, etc. - basically any relative pronoun + *to be*. – stangdon Mar 02 '23 at 15:26

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