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THE PASSIVE VOICE
The passive voice is used when the most important in the sentences is the action and not the subject or person.
TO BE + PAST PARTICIPLE + BY + SUBJECT
Examples: Mary writes very interesting books
( Active Voice)
Very interesting books are written by Mary (Passive Voice)
The famous singer sings rock songs in the concert.
Rock songs are sung by the famous singer in the concert.
My parents sell last model cars in the main avenue.
Last model cars are sold by my parents in the main avenue.
More examples.
* The baby sees funny cartoons in the TV
* My best friend cleans his bedroom every
Saturday.
• Students do interesting homework at school
• My mom cooks delicious peruvian food on
weekends.
• The architects build a modern building in the
avenue.
• The girl reads romantic stories in her free
time.
Past Passive Voice TO BE IN PAST + PAST PARTICIPLE VERB + BY+
SUBJECT
Examples:• Shakespeare wrote Hamlet ( active voice )• Hamlet was written by Shakespeare ( passive
voice)
• My father drew great pictures in the exhibition
• Great pictures were drawn by my father in the exhibition.
More examples
The secretary saw some cultural videos in the
office.
The player got three goals in the last match.
My grandparents sent me a different present
for my birthday.
Hiran Brigham discovered MachuPicchu in 1911
The thieves stole some houses in the middle of
the night.
The police made a new report in the main
square.
PRACTICE1.The students created a very interesting essay about the nature.2. The secretary types different school documents in the morning.3. Hiran Brigham discovered the Machu Picchu Ruins in 1911.4. The child drink all the milk bottle in the morning.5.Some sportmen jumped the London Bridge in the dawn.6. Mario Vargas Llosa produced very controversial books in all his life.
7. A well known singer sign thousand of autographs in the Aventura Plaza Mall.
8. The teacher teaches the Passive Voice Lesson to the english students in the third floor of the school.
9. The artist draws a very colorful sigtseeing picture in the middle of the main square.
10. Gaston Acurio represents our peruvian gastronomy , and in the best way for all over the world.
11. The England Collonies conquested North America in the 18th. Century.
12.The Huascar Ship confronted to the Esmerald Ship in the Iquique Combat in 1879.
13. Two hundred thousand people died in the Indonesia Tsunami in 2004.
15. Nostradamus did many phofecies about the Judish Global Holocauste.
16. Salvador Dali painted the most famous impresionist pictures in the world.
HomeworkThink about some inventions , literature
books , music ,programs,etc and write twenty sentences in active voice and change them to the passive voice.
In all the tenses.(40 in total)