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Passive Voice
Things to learn:
 Formation
rules
• The sentence structure of passive voice in
present simple tense and past simple tense.
 Contexts
of use
• The situation when we use passive voice.
Formation rules
 Only
transitive verbs can be made passive.
 The passive is formed with the verb be and
the past participle.
 The object of the verb becomes the subject
in a passive sentence.
Passive voice in present simple
tense
 Present
 Passive
simple
 The
Government build
hundreds of houses
every year.
 Hundreds of houses are
built every year by the
Government.
Passive voice in past simple tense
 Past
simple
 Passive
 The
police arrested one
protester.
 One protester was arrested
by the police.
Exercise
1. Use passive voice in past simple tense to describe what
does the rabbit do.
2. Use passive voice in present simple tense to describe what
does the dog do.
Tips Ans.
Tips:
1.Rabbit / Carrot / Grill
2.Dog / Rabbit / Grill
Answers:
1.The carrots were grilled by the rabbit.
2.The rabbit is grilled by the dog.
Context of use
 Putting
emphasis on important information.
 Emphasized information usually comes at
the beginning of the sentence.
Examples:
 The
Government build hundreds of houses
every year.
- More emphasis is given to who did it.
 Hundreds of houses are built every year by
the Government.
- More emphasis is given to the number of
houses built.
Context of use
 Spoken
and written
 Passive tends to be used more in writing,
and in formal speech.
Passive Voice
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