REVIEWING Passive voice Active voice PacMan is eating

REVIEWING: Passive voice Active voice: Pac-Man is eating the Ghosts. Passive voice: The Ghosts are being eaten by Pac-Man. By Miss Karina Cortés Grego

Are you clear about the use of active and passive voice? This presentation details for you the way sentences are structured, the main elements which form a sentence, and the changes produced when you transform a sentence from active to passive. Usually, we use active voice to talk to people or express our opinions; however, scientific texts, academic writing and news, among others types of written texts, use passive voice. This material was developed considering usual mistakes made by students of previous generations. Please take notes of those aspects which you don`t understand. Send your doubts to ingles@saintgasparcollege. cl and a teacher will be willing to clarify them.

Passive Voice all tenses: Tips to transform from Active to Passive: FIRST : Identify the tense of the sentence. SECOND: Identify the object of the sentence. Active voice: She speaks many languages. Object What’s the tense? Present Simple Which is the object? Passive voice: Many languages are spoken by her. In Present Simple we use: is/am /are + the main verb in past participle.

Passive Voice all tenses: Tips to transform from Active to Passive: FIRST : Identify the tense of the sentence. SECOND: Identify the object of the sentence. Active voice: Did he send the email to his boss? Object What’s the tense? Past Simple Which is the object? Passive voice: Was the email sent to his boss by him? In Past Simple we use: was / were + the main verb in past participle.

Passive Voice all tenses: Tips to transform from Active to Passive: FIRST : Identify the tense of the sentence. SECOND: Identify the object of the sentence. Active voice: They are organising their wedding party. Object What’s the tense? Present Continuous Which is the object? Passive voice: Their wedding party is being organised by them. In Present Continuous we use: Am / is / are + being + the main verb in past participle.

Passive Voice all tenses: Tips to transform from Active to Passive: FIRST : Identify the tense of the sentence. SECOND: Identify the object of the sentence. Active voice: Were they building a bird cage last month? Object What’s the tense? Past Continuous Which is the object? Passive voice: Was a bird cage being built by them last month? In Past Continuous we use: Was / Were + being + the main verb in past participle.

Passive Voice all tenses: Tips to transform from Active to Passive: FIRST : Identify the tense of the sentence. SECOND: Identify the object of the sentence. Active voice: Has the secretary already delivered the envelope? Object What’s the tense? Present Perfect Which is the object? Passive voice: Has the envelope already been delivered by the secretary? In Present Perfect we use: Have / Has + been + the main verb in past participle.

Passive Voice all tenses: Tips to transform from Active to Passive: FIRST : Identify the tense of the sentence. SECOND: Identify the object of the sentence. Active voice: He had read the book twice before the test. Object What’s the tense? Past Perfect Which is the object? Passive voice: The book had been read twice by him before the test. In Past Perfect we use: Had + been + the main verb in past participle.

Passive Voice all tenses: Tips to transform from Active to Passive: FIRST : Identify the tense of the sentence. SECOND: Identify the object of the sentence. Active voice: Will they develop the project during this week? Object What’s the tense? Future Simple Which is the object? Passive voice: Will the project be developed by them during this week? In Future Simple we use: Will + be + the main verb in past participle.

Passive Voice all tenses: Tips to transform from Active to Passive: FIRST : Identify the tense of the sentence. SECOND: Identify the object of the sentence. Active voice: You shouldn’t punish him for that silly accident. What’s the tense? Object Modal verb Which is the object? Passive voice: He shouldn’t be punished for that silly accident by you. In Modal Verbs we use: Should / Would/ Could/ Might (not) + be + the main verb in past participle.

Common Mistakes that were found in your tests:

Mistake 1 : Changing the tense of the sentence. Active voice: The coach is showing the children how to throw the ball. Passive voice: The children have been showed how to throw the ball by the coach. Passive voice: The children were showed how to throw the ball by the coach. Passive voice: The children are being showed how to throw the ball by the coach.

Mistake 2 : Transforming a question into a sentence. Active voice: Did they tell the truth to the teacher? Passive voice: The truth was told to the teacher by them. Passive voice: Was the truth told to the teacher by them?

Mistake 3 : Using a subject pronoun instead of an object pronoun at the end of the sentence. Active voice: She helped them with the Math exercises. Passive voice: They were helped with the Math exercises by she. Passive voice: They were helped with the Math exercises by her.