Transcript Passive Voice - English Projects

Why should we use the
Passive Voice?
Where was that found?
We use the Passive when the action is more
important than the person who does the action.
Example: Active: Someone broke the window.
Passive: The window was broken.
It is not important or not known, however,
who or what is performing the action.
Examples: 1.My bike was stolen.
2.Spanish is spoken in South America.
By+ the agent (Object) is used :
A. When it is important to know who does the
action.
The telephone was invented by Alexander Bell.
How to form the Passive
We form the passive from the verb /to be/ and the 3rd
form of the main verb (V3).
/to be/ expresses the tense of the main verb.
Examples: The movie is being shown now.
The movie was shown last night.
The movie will be shown tomorrow.
Tenses
Present Simple
Active: Subject+V1+Object…
Passive: Subject+am/is/are+V3+by+Object
Example: She writes the letter.
The letter is written by her.
Present Progressive
Active:Subject+am/is/are+V1+ing+Object
Passive: Subject+ am/is/ are+ Being +V3+by+Object
Examples: She is writing the letter right now.
The letter is being written by her.
Present Perfect
Active: Subject+have/has+V3 +Object
Passive: Subject+have/has+been+V3+by+Object
Examples: She has written the letter.
The letter has been written by her.
Past Simple
Active: Subject+V2+Object
Passive: Subject+ was/were+V3+by+Object
Examples: She has written the letter.
The letter was written by her.
Past Progressive
Active: Subject+was/were+V1+ing+Object
Passive: Subject+was/were+being+V3+by+Object.
Examples: She was writing the letter.
The letter was being written by her.
Past Perfect
Active: Subject+had+V3+Object
Passive: Subject had+been+V3+by+Object
Examples: She had written the letter.
The letter had been written by her.
Future Simple
Active: Subject+will+V1+Object
Passive: Subject+will+be+V3+by+Object
Examples: She will write the letter to him.
The letter will be written by her to him.
Be Going To
Active: Subject+ am/is/are+ going to+ V1+Object
Passive: Subject+ am/is/are+ going to+be+V3
Examples: She is going to write a letter to him.
The letter is going to be written by her.
Modals
Active:Subject+Modal+V1+Object
Passive: Subject+Modals+be+V3+by+object
Examples: She can write the letter.
The letter can be written by her to him .
Semi Modals
Active: Subject+ Semi Modal+V1+Object
Passive: Subject+ Semi Modal+be+V3+by+Object
Examples: She has to send the letter to her uncle.
The letter has to be sent by her to her uncle.
Pay attention:
Not all the verbs can be put into Passive
because they have no object (no one to
“receive” the action.
Examples of such verbs are include:
Happen, die, sleep, exist, go , come, occur,
arrive, have, live.
When rewriting active sentences in the
Passive Voice, note the following:
The object of the active sentence becomes the
subject of the passive sentence
The verb is changed (to be + past participle).
The subject of the active sentence becomes
the object of the passive sentence (or is
dropped)
Passive Exercises
http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/active-passive.html
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cramup/grammar/passive/exercises?present-progressive
http://www.nonstopenglish.com/exercise.asp?exid=921
http://www.smic.be/smic5022/passive1.htm
http://www.xtec.net/aulanet/ud/angles/sports/alumnes/pve/ex1pv
e.htm
Active and Passive
Tenses Chart
http://www.english-zone.com/teach/pssvchrt.html
Your personal assignment
Choose one:
Write a poem about love
A newspaper article about crime.
Use the Passive Voice.
Use connectors.
For the newspaper article, use the vocabulary from
p.78 in your book.