Passive Voice

Passive Voice

4Harmoni - 22th June 2021

Passive Voice

• The passive voice is used to show interest in the person or object that experiences an action rather than the person or object that performs the action. In other words, the most important thing or person becomes the subject of the sentence.

Passive Voice

• Refer Textbook page 83

• Turn to page 165 for more details

Active vs Passive Voice (Example question)

• Sally slices the onions thinly

• (Active)

• The onions are sliced thinly by Sally

• (Passive)

Discussion

• Who is the subject in the first sentence ?

• What is the Verb in the sentence?

• What is the object in the sentence?

• (Subject + Verb + Direct Object / Indirect Object)

• To convert active to passive voice- switch the places of the subject and object

• Subject goes to back and object goes to the front

Example sentences

• When I was visiting Paris, somebody bumped into me.

• Change the underlined sentence to passive voice sentence

• Somebody = Subject

• Bumped = Verb

• Me = Object

• Answer : I was bumped into

Continue (Verbs with two objects)

• Jasmine risked her life to safe a bus of kindergarten children. She was celebrated across the country. The king awarded Jasmine the medal for bravery.

• We want to focus on Jasmine in this paragraph

• Ans: Jasmine was awarded the medal for bravery by the King.

• To promote the flow and organization of the sentence

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Forms

The passive voice is formed with the suitable tense of the verbs "be" followed by the past participle as in the table on the right

Open Ended

Practice:

Scan through the sentences on Activity C and type the passive voice sentence here

Let's do some warm up on Passive Voice

Multiple Select

Which of the following are passive voice sentences

• His wife has gone to the bank.

• I wrote a letter to my brother.

• Parkour was invented by two young people from Paris.

• This sport was created in the 1980s by a couple of bored adolescents.

Multiple Select

Which of the following are passive voice sentences

• He was made the Champion of Parkour last year.

• I enjoyed doing parkour.

• A documentary was broadcast in the UK called Jumped London.

• Parkour has been a trend in Paris.

Task

• Turn to page 83

• Complete the questions 1 to 6

• Answers only

Passive II

Continuous Tenses

Passive Voice II

• Continuous Tenses

• My bike is being fixed this week, so I have to walk to school.

• The students were being shown around the museum when the guide realized that someone was missing.

Practice

• The children are chasing the dog.

• Ans: The dog is being chased by the children.

• Man encroaching into their living space

• Ans: Their living space is being encroached by the man.

• They are renovating their house for Christmas.

• Ans: Their house is being renovated for Christmas.

Now it's your turn..

• Turn to page 85

• Complete the question 1 to 5

• Grammar section

• Answers only

• Additional task : Make 2 sentences of Passive Voice sentence (In your exercise book)

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