THE PASSIVE VOICE

The passive voice is used when the most important in the sentences is the action and not the subject or person.

TO BE + PAST PARTICIPLE + BY + SUBJECT

Examples: Mary writes very interesting books

( Active Voice)

Very interesting books are written by Mary (Passive Voice)

The famous singer sings rock songs in the concert.

Rock songs are sung by the famous singer in the concert.

My parents sell last model cars in the main avenue.

Last model cars are sold by my parents in the main avenue.

More examples.

* The baby sees funny cartoons in the TV

* My best friend cleans his bedroom every

Saturday.

• Students do interesting homework at school

• My mom cooks delicious peruvian food on

weekends.

• The architects build a modern building in the

avenue.

• The girl reads romantic stories in her free

time.

Past Passive Voice TO BE IN PAST + PAST PARTICIPLE VERB + BY+

SUBJECT

Examples:• Shakespeare wrote Hamlet ( active voice )• Hamlet was written by Shakespeare ( passive

voice)

• My father drew great pictures in the exhibition

• Great pictures were drawn by my father in the exhibition.

More examples

The secretary saw some cultural videos in the

office.

The player got three goals in the last match.

My grandparents sent me a different present

for my birthday.

Hiran Brigham discovered MachuPicchu in 1911

The thieves stole some houses in the middle of

the night.

The police made a new report in the main

square.

PRACTICE1.The students created a very interesting essay about the nature.2. The secretary types different school documents in the morning.3. Hiran Brigham discovered the Machu Picchu Ruins in 1911.4. The child will drink all the milk bottle in the morning.5.Some sportmen have jumped the London Bridge in the dawn.6. Mario Vargas Llosa has produced very controversial books in all his life.

7 The doctors will do an emergency surgery in the hospital.

8.Chinese people have bought free tickets for the concert.

9 The mechanics can fix old cars in two hours.

10 Students must do the homework everyday.

ACTIVE VOICE PASSIVE VOICE

VERB IN PRESENT TO BE + VERB IN PAST PARTICIPLE

VERB IN PAST TO BE + VERB IN PAST PARTICIPLE

FUTURE TENSE (WILL) WILL+ TO BE+ V.P.P

PRESENT PERFECT HAVE/HAS + BEEN+ VPP

PAST PERFECT HAD + BEEN + VPP

MODALS(can,should,must,Might ;Could,may)

MODAL+ TO BE+ VPP

11. A well known singer can sign thousand of autographs in the Aventura Plaza Mall.12. The teacher teaches the Passive Voice Lesson to the english students in the third floor of the school.13. The artist has drawn a very colorful sigtseeing picture in the middle of the main square.14. Gaston Acurio represents our peruvian gastronomy , and in the best way for all over the world.15. The England Collonies conquested North America in the 18th. Century.

16The Huascar Ship confronted to the Esmerald Ship in the Iquique Combat in 1879.

17 Two hundred thousand people died in the Indonesia Tsunami in 2004.

18. Nostradamus has done many phofecies about the Judish Global Holocauste.

19. Salvador Dali painted the most famous impresionist pictures in the world.

CLASS PRACTICEThink about some inventions , literature

books , music ,programs,etc and write twenty sentences in active voice and change them to the passive voice.

Use all the tenses.Examples:

Mario Vargas Llosa has written El Sueño de Zelta.

El Sueño de Zelta has been written by Mario Vargas Llosa.

 

THE STORY OF JEANSJeans (wear)………………………………………by people all over the

world. Millions of pairs of jeans(buy)

……………………………………..everyday. Jeans (make)…………………………………..from cotton. The cotton(pick)

……………………………………and (make)………………………………..into a cloth called denim. The denim (color)……………………………………….blue. The denim(make)……………………………Into jeans by women workers who are

usually badly (pay)…………………………. Then the jeans(take)………………………………………………..to stores where they (sell)…………………………………..for twice the cost of making them.

The word “jeans” comes from Italy. Over three hundred years ago the people of Genoa wore cotton clothes and the cloth (know)…………………………………………..as “jeans” after the

name of the town. The first jeans (make)…………………………………………in the USA as early as 1638.A man called Levi Strauss went to California

from New York in 1853 and in 1872 the first Levi jeans (make)……………………………………… The famous Levi label(use)

……………………………………………….first in 1886, and the first Levi 501s (sell)………………………..in 1890. This great jeans

(buy)………………………………………………for millions all over the world.