Below you can find a table,I saw in weebly.com, about the changes from verb tense to verb tense. Have a look!
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: Joana drinks the chocolate milk. Pres. Contin.: Madalena is drinking chocolate milk. Simple Past: Duarte drank chocolate milk. Past Conti.: Afonso was drinking chocolate milk. Present Perfect: Daniel 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? | The chocolate milk is drunk by Joana. The chocolate milk is being drunk by Madalena. The chocolate milk was drunk by Duarte. The chocolate milk was being drunk by Afonso. The chocolate milk has been drunk by Daniel. 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? |
Why do we use the passive voice?
-Don’t know the agent’s identity
-Not important to mention the agent of the action
-Want to avoid the agent of the action. (journalism)
-Focus on the action
Exercises:
Write the sentences given in the Passive Voice. Write the answers in your notebook.
a) Helena and Luísa write the newspaper articles.
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b) Carolina and Mariana aren’t taking photos in Amsterdam.
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c) Were you asking questions about the Festival?
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d) Leonor must obey the traffic rules.
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e) The team is now finishing the documentary.
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f) Dourado 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:
Vasco and Matilde bought a book for Inês yesterday.
book - what - direct object
Inês - 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 for Inês yesterday.
b) Inês was given a book by Vasco and Matilde yesterday.
a) Explanation here
b) Exercises here (in this website firstly, you have a page with an explanation and at the bottom, you have the chance to click for the exercises)
c) More exercises here
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