PASSIVE VOICE SIMPLE PRESENT

Present Simple

Passive Voice

What do we refer with "Passive Voice"?

• Passive Voice is a way to contruct sentences to emphazise the object/person that experiences or receives an action.
• Also it is used when we do not know the doer of an action or it is not important.

SubJECT + VERB + OBJECT/COMPLEMENT

Common structure of English Sentences

OBJECT/COMPLEMENT + AUX + VERB + by + SUBJECT (AGENT)

Structure of passive sentences

What happens with the verb?

• We add an aditional auxiliar verb (TO BE verb)
• (IS - ARE)
• The verb in simple present tense is changed to past participle
• EAT --> EATEN
• If the sentence is negative, we add the negative auxiliars
• ISN'T - AREN'T

Examples

• Students create a robot.
• A robot is created by students

• He plays basketball
• Basketball is played

• They build a house
• A house is built

• Scientits discovers more than 2000 species of animals every year
• Mora than 2000 species of animals are discovered every year

PAST PARTICIPLE OF VERBS

IRREGULAR VERBS

REGULAR VERBS

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These are formed by adding -ed at the end of the verb

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Simple Present Passive pg 67

They MAKE this walls of bottles.

This wall __________ MADE of bottles.

IS

AM

ARE

Simple Present Passive pg 67

People USE car tires to build strong walls. Car tires ARE ______ to build strong walls.

USE

USED

USING

Simple Present Passive pg 67

They DON'T MAKE that bottle of plastic. The bottle ISN'T _______ of plastic.

MADE

MAKED

MAKE

Pregunta 6/10

People DON'T BUILD the houses with bricks. The houses _______ BUILT with bricks.

AREN'T

IS

ARE

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