active and passive By yuli marlina Active and
active and passive By yuli marlina
Active and passive �Transitive verbs have a passive form as well as an active form: �The hunter killed the lion. (active) <> The lion was killed by the hunter. (passive) �Someone has cleaned the windows <> The windows have been cleaned. �The passive forms are made up of the verb "be" with a past participle:
example "be" is English have been The windows was being Lunch will be The work might have They been Past participle spoken cleaned served finished invited all over the world soon to the party
1. We use an active verb to say what the subject does we use a passive verb to say what happens to the subject �My granfather was abuilder. He built this house in 1998. �This house is quite old. It was built in 1930. � 2. we use the passive verb for causes the action is often unknown. �A lot of money was stolen in the robbery.
Present simple and past simple �Active; clean(s). etc. �somebody cleans this room every day �Passive; am/is/are cleaned. . . etc �the room is cleaned every day �Active: cleaned/saw. . . etc �somebody cleaned this room yesterday �Passive; was/were cleaned/seen. . etc �this room was cleaned yesterday
Present perfect and past perfect �Active; have/has(done) �The room look so nice. Somebody has cleaned it �Passive; have/has been(done) room looks nice. It has been cleaned. �Active; had(done) �The room looked nice. Somebody had cleaned it. �The had been (done) �The room looked nice. It had been cleaned �Passive;
Next…. . �Simple present continuous �Active: Their dog is chasing my cat. �Passive: My cat is being chased by their dog. �Past continuous �Active: The gang members were discussing the planned robbery. �Passive: The planned robbery was being discussed (by the gang members). �
Next…. . � Simple future � Active: The children will blow up these balloons. � Passive: These balloons will be blown up (by the children). � � Future continuous � Active: She will be painting the doghouse. � Passive: The doghouse will be being painted (by her). � � Future perfect � Active: The police will have questioned the suspects. � Passive: The suspects will have been questioned (by the police). �
Next…. � Modals � Active: He should/must sell his car. � Passive: His car should/must be sold (by him). � � Modal continuous � We may be building a giant sandcastle. � A giant sandcastle may be being built (by us). � � Modal perfect � Active: A suicide bomber might/could have detonated the bomb. � Passive: The bomb might/could have been detonated by a suicide bomber. �
. passive sentence with two objects �A verb can have two possible passive voices when it takes two objects: a direct object and an indirect object. Normally, it is the indirect object (the first object that appears first in an active sentence) which becomes the subject of the passive sentence. We can however also use the direct object as the subject.
Examples…. �Active: The salesman showed him (indirect object) a new computer (direct object). / The salesman showed a new computer to him. �Passive: He was shown a new computer. �Passive: A new computer was shown to him. �Active: We lent Bob some money. / We lent some money to Bob. �Passive: Bob was lent some money. �Passive: Some money was lent to Bob. �Active: Jack sent Jill a birthday card. �Passive: Jill was sent a birthday card by Jack. �Passive: A birthday card was sent to Jill by Jack.
�The protesters were kicked, punched and handcuffed by the police before they were taken away in the police van. (Words: 19 / Characters: 93) �The police kicked, punched and handcuffed the protesters before taking them away in a police van. (16/82)
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