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 tense of the active sentence.
Examples:
Active Voice Passive Voice
Pres. Simple: Francisco drinks the chocolate milk. Pres. Contin.: Matilde is drinking chocolate milk. Simple Past: Gabriel drank chocolate milk. Past Conti.: Carolina was drinking chocolate milk. Present Perfect: Leonor has drunk chocolate milk. Past Perfect: Sara 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”: Zé isn’t going to drink chocolate milk. Modal verb: Should Rodrigo drink chocolate milk? | The chocolate milk is drunk by Francisco. The chocolate milk is being drunk by Matilde. The chocolate milk was drunk by Gabriel. The chocolate milk was being drunk by Carolina. The chocolate milk has been drunk by Leonor. The chocolate milk had been drunk by Sara. The chocolate milk will be drunk by João. The chocolate milk isn’t going to be drunk by Zé. Should the chocolate milk be drunk by Rodrigo? |
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.
-Focus on the action
Exercises:
Write the sentences given in the Passive Voice.
a) Gonçalo and Duarte write the newspaper articles.
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b) Beatriz and Francisca aren’t taking photos in Amsterdam.
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c) Was Margarida asking questions about the Festival?
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d) Dúnia must obey the traffic rules.
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e) The team is now finishing the documentary.
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f) Children watch cartoons in the 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:
Lin and Val bought a book for Sara yesterday.
book - what - direct object
Sara - to whom - 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 Sara yesterday.
b) Sara was bought a book by Val and Lin yesterday.
a) Explanation here
b) Exercises here (on 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
d) And here
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