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    Passive Voice Mio 1

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    The document provides a table comparing active and passive voice constructions across different tenses in English. It lists the active form, passive form, and notes that the passive voice is formed using the verb "to be" and the past participle of the main verb. It also discusses when the passive voice is commonly used, such as when the actor is unknown or unimportant, or how the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence.

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    The document provides a table comparing active and passive voice constructions across different tenses in English. It lists the active form, passive form, and notes that the passive voice is formed using the verb "to be" and the past participle of the main verb. It also discusses when the passive voice is commonly used, such as when the actor is unknown or unimportant, or how the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence.

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    ACTIVE PASSIVE

    SIMPLE PRESENT They repair cars. Cars are repaired.


    PRESENT CONTINUOUS They are repairing cars. Cars are being repaired.
    SIMPLE PAST They repaired cars. Cars were repaired.
    PAST CONTINUOUS They were repairing cars. Cars were being repaired.
    PRESENT PERFECT They have repaired cars. Cars have been repaired.
    PAST PERFECT They had repaired cars. Cars had been repaired.
    SIMPLE FUTURE They will repair cars. Cars will be repaired.
    MODALS They can repair cars. Cars can be repaired.

    FORM
    The passive voice is formed with the verb to
    be and the past participle of the main verb. USE
    Steps to change from active to passive voice: We use a passive structure when the action is
    The object of the active sentence becomes the more important than the person who does/did
    subject of the passive one. it.
    The verb to be in the passive sentence is in Toyota cars are made in Japan.
    the same tense as the main verb in the active
    sentence. When we don’t know who did the action.
    In the passive sentence, we use the past My house was broken into last night.
    participle of the main verb in the active
    sentence. When the agent is obvious
    When we want to mention who performed the English is spoken all over the world.
    action, we use the word By By Agent

    Only sentences that have transitive verbs (verbs that have an object) can be changed into
    passive voice.
    They ate all the pizza. (ate is a transitive verb and the object is the pizza)
    When the subject of the active voice is one of the following words: someone, she, he, they,
    people, etc, we omit the agent in the passive sentence.
    Somebody stole my umbrella. My umbrella was stolen by somebody.
    Object pronouns in the active sentence turn into subject pronouns in the passive sentence.
    My parents love me. I am loved by my parents.
    When the active sentence has two objects, one direct object (thing) and one indirect object
    (person), we prefer to use the indirect object as the subject of the passive sentence.
    My parents gave me a mobile phone for my birthday. (Me is the indirect object and a mobile
    phone is the direct object.)
    I was given a mobile phone for my birthday.
    COLUMN A COLUMN B
    Mona Lisa Shakespeare
    Don Quixote Stephen Spielberg
    The Ninth Symphony Pablo Picasso
    America Miguel de Cervantes
    The theory of relativity Beethoven
    Microsoft Christopher Columbus
    Ford Motor Company Leonardo Da Vinci
    ET Bill Gates
    Romeo and Juliet Albert Einstein
    Cubism Henry Ford

    WRITE THE SENTENCES


    ___________________________________
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    ___________________________________
    ___________________________________
    ___________________________________
    ___________________________________
    ___________________________________
    ___________________________________
    ___________________________________
    ______________________________________

    Fill in the blanks using the simple present passive of the


    verbs in brackets:
    Chocolate ___________________from cocoa.(made)
    Criminals_______________________to prison.(send)
    Injured people_________________to hospital.(take)
    Coffee_________________________in Brazil.(grow)
    Car brakes____________________many times.(test)
    Quality___________________by specialists.(control)
    Stamps_________________at the post offices.(sell)
    Fires____________________by firemen.(extinguish)
    Rice________________________in China.(cultivate)
    Operations________________in surgeries.(perform)

    Fill in the blanks using the present perfect Fill in the blanks using the simple future passive
    passive of the verbs in brackets: of the verbs in brackets:
    A lot of changes____________________.(make) In the year 2050, our food____________(cook)
    A lot of photos______________________.(take) by robots, all our clothes___________(make) of
    All the flower beds__________________.(water) plastic, all our credit cards__________(discard)
    I_________________________a good job.(offer)
    and instead one unique banknote card____(use).
    She________________________to hurry up.(tell)
    Cure for many terminal illnesses_____(discover)
    Plastic bottles____________into the river.(throw)
    Her cases________________into the hotel.(carry) and some operations____________(perform) by
    All the cake_________________________. (eat) robots. Cars_______________ (transform) into
    Argentina______________Mexico by 3 to 1.(beat) some sort of small planes. Surely, there will be
    All the rooms_______________________.(tidy) many more advances in technology, of course.

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