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PASSIVE VOICE

Antonio Brigido Rivera

Created on September 6, 2024

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Passive Voice

Objective: the student will learn how to structure and use passive voice in English.

ACTIVE VOICE

SUBJECT + VERB + OBJECT
MY FATHER EATS THE APPLE PIE.

PASSIVE VOICE

OBJECT AS SUBJECT + VERB
THE APPLE PIE IS EATEN.

S (O)

What happens with the doer?

Usually the subject of the active-voice sentence can be recovered in the passive-voice sentence with a prepositional phrase.
My father eats the apple pie.
The apple pie is eaten by my father.

structure

IMPORTANT

THE VERB

For passive voice you must use the verb in its passive form, which is structured as follow:

TO BE + PAST PARTICIPLE

Practice 1

00:30

Active or passive voice?

00:30

Active or passive voice?

00:30

Active or passive voice?

00:30

Active or passive voice?

00:30

Active or passive voice?

00:30

Active or passive voice?

00:30

Active or passive voice?

00:30

Active or passive voice?

00:30

Active or passive voice?

Passive voice is a structure we can use in more complex tenses. It's important to master all the conjugations to distinguish between active and passive voice. It's also important to distinguish between progressive tenses and passive voice.