Basic
English Structure
Active & Passive Voice ¤¤^ĒŠ
Tense
Table
I. Active Voice
In an active voice sentence, the subject does the action
and the direct object receives the action. Only sentences with a direct object
can be made into passive voice sentences.
e.g.
|
Subject
|
Verb
(transitive)
|
Direct
Object
|
Other
|
|
Mary
|
made
|
a
cake
|
for
us.
|
|
Tom
|
will
buy
|
some
milk
|
for
the children.
|
|
He
|
sends
|
a
letter
|
to
Ann every week.
|
|
Somebody
|
saw
|
Sandy
|
entering
the house.
|
|
The
maid
|
cleans
|
the
bathroom
|
daily.
|
Exercise
1
I. Identifying the Direct Object
II. Passive Voice
In a passive voice sentence, the subject receives the action.
The doer of the action is placed after 'by' or is absent from the sentence.
3 steps to change the active voice to the passive voice:
-- move the direct object to the subject of the
sentence
-- move the subject to the end of the sentence
and add 'by'
-- change the verb form
See
how to change a sentence from active voice to passive voice.
|
Subject
|
Passive
Verb
|
by +
Object
|
Other
|
|
A
cake
|
was
made
|
by
Mary
|
for
us.
|
|
Some
milk
|
will
be bought
|
by
Tom
|
for
the children.
|
|
A
letter
|
is
sent
|
by
him
|
to
Ann every week.
|
|
Sandy
|
was
seen
|
(by
someone)
|
entering
the house.
|
|
The
bathroom
|
is
cleaned
|
by
the maid
|
daily.
|
Exercise
2
I. Recognizing the passive voice
III. Passive Verb
Form
2 steps to change the verb form
-- use the same tense
-- use the right form of 'be' and the past participle
of the main verb
|
Tense
|
Subject
|
Verb
be + past participle |
by +
Object
|
|
| Simple Present | A book | is | written | by Tom. |
| Present Continuous | A book | is being | written | by Tom. |
| Present Perfect | A book | has been | written | by Tom. |
| Simple Past | A book | was | written | by Tom. |
| Past Continuous | A book | was being | written | by Tom. |
| Past Perfect | A book | had been | written | by Tom. |
| Simple Future | A book | will be | written | by Tom. |
| Future Continuous | A book | will be being | written | by Tom. |
| Future Perfect | A book | will have been | written | by Tom. |
Exercise
3
I. Recognizing the passive verb
form
Revision
I.
Recognizing the correct verb form I
II.
Recognizing the correct verb form II
