Remember this:
a) BE + Past Participle;
b) Firstly, identify the verb tense of the active sentence;
c) Build the sentence in the passive, writing the auxiliary verb to be in the same tense of the active sentence.
Examples:
Active Voice Passive Voice
Pres. Simple: Marta drinks the chocolate milk.
Pres. Contin.: Carolina is drinking chocolate milk.
Simple Past: Samuel drank chocolate milk.
Past Conti.: Luís was drinking chocolate milk.
Present Perfect: Fialho has drunk chocolate milk.
Past Perfect: Afonso had drunk chocolate milk. Present Perfect Continuous: it isn't used in the passive.
Future “will”: João will drink chocolate milk.
Future “Be going to”: José isn’t going to drink chocolate milk.
Modal verb: Should Inês drink chocolate milk?
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The chocolate milk is drunk byMarta.
The chocolate milk is being drunk by Carolina.
The chocolate milk was drunk by Samuel.
The chocolate milk was being drunk by Luís.
The chocolate milk has been drunk by Fialho. The chocolate milk had been drunk by Afonso. The chocolate milk will be drunk by João.
The chocolate milk isn’t going to be drunk by José.
Should the chocolate milk be drunk by Inês?
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Exercises:
Write the sentences given in the Passive Voice. Write the answers in your notebook.
a) George and Francisco write the newspaper articles.
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b) Matilde and Sara aren’t taking photos in Amsterdam.
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c) Were you asking questions about the Festival?
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d) Beatriz must obey the traffic rules.
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e) The team is now finishing the documentary.
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f) Gonçalo and Martim play football on Saturday morning.
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g) Did Shakespeare write Hamlet and Macbeth?
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And now try these:
PASSIVE VOICE with 2 objects
Sometimes we have sentences where you have a "who" and a "what". For instance:
Luís and Matilde bought a book to Marta yesterday.
book - what - direct object
Marta - who - indirect object
This means that you can build 2 Passive sentences!
One of them begins with the direct object and the other with the indirect object.
a) A book was bought to Marta yesterday.
b) Marta was given a book by Luís and Matilde yesterday.
a) Explanation here
b) Exercises here (in this website firstly, you have a page with explanation and in the bottom, you have the chance to click for the exercises)
c) More exercises here
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