ACTIVE & PASSIVE VOICE: PRESENT/ PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE

ACTIVE & PASSIVE VOICE: PRESENT/ PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE

By Natasha Azani

Multiple Choice

Is this sentence an ACTIVE or PASSIVE sentence?

Adilla recently joined the singing class.

• ACTIVE

• PASSIVE

Multiple Choice

Change the following ACTIVE sentence into a PASSIVE sentence:

An unknown stranger followed Marika and her friends.

• Marika and her friends are followed by an unknown stranger.

• Marika and her friends followed by an unknown stranger.

• Marika and her friends were followed by an unknown stranger.

• Marika and her friends followed an unknown stranger.

Multiple Choice

Change the following PASSIVE sentence to ACTIVE sentence:

The Spelling Bee championship is won by Darius every year.

• The Spelling Bee championship won Darius every year.

• Darius wins the Spelling Bee championship every year.

• Darius won the Spelling Bee championship every year.

• Darius is won the Spelling Bee championship every year.

What is Active VoiCE: Present Continuous Tense?

It is a sentence when an action is currently happening at the present moment.​

• [SN + is + verb-ing + Object]

• [PN + are + verb-ing + Object]

• [I + am + verb-ing + Object]​

THE grammar rule:

Multiple Choice

Change the SIMPLE PRESENT sentence to PRESENT CONTINUOUS sentence:

They ride their bikes around the park area.

• They are riding their bikes around the park area.

• They were riding their bikes around the park area.

• They rode their bikes around the park area.

Multiple Choice

present continuous tense: Find the missing component.

[subject + is/are/am + ____ + object]

• past action verb

• present participle

• past participle

• modal verb

Is a sentence used to show an ongoing action that was currently happening in the PAST. ​

ACTIVE voice: past continuous tense

• [SN + was + verb-ing + Object]

• [PN + were + verb-ing + Object]​

​Some text here about the topic of discussion.

Past continuous has the same rule as present continuous with one difference: was/were

Multiple Select

Which of these sentences are PAST CONTINUOUS sentence? (there are more than ONE choice)

• Alisa was talking on the phone when she heard the loud noise.

• Johan was celebrating his victory as a first prize winner in Debate.

• They decided to expel the problematic student.

• Some of us were cleaning the storage.

• Jena and her siblings were very excited about their new house

Unlike active voice where we focus on the subject of the sentence; passive voice change the focus to the object of the sentence.

Passive Voice: Present/past continuous tense

ACTIVE VOICE: Present continuous

[ Subject + is/are/am + verb-ing + Object]

PASSIVE VOICE: Present continuous

[ Object + is/are/am + being + Past Participle + Subject]​

As such, the rule changes from the active voice to passive voice

Active voice:

[Subject + was/were + verb-ing + Object]

​Passive voice:

[Object + was/were + being + past participle + by + Subject]​

Passive voice: past continuous tense

Multiple Choice

Change the ACTIVE sentence to PASSIVE sentence:

The children were throwing the stones at Mr. Wei's windows.

• The children thrown the stones at Mr. Wei's windows.

• The stones were throwing the children at Mr. Wei's windows.

• The stones were being thrown by the children at Mr. Wei's windows.

• The children were being thrown by the stones at Mr. Wei's windows.

Multiple Choice

Change the PASSIVE to ACTIVE sentence:

A bottle of milk was being drunk by the little baby.

• A bottle of milk was drunk by the little baby.

• A bottle of milk was drinking by the little baby.

• A bottle of milk drunk the little baby.

• The little baby was drinking a bottle of milk

Multiple Choice

The fence is being ____ by Peter.

• paints

• painted

• painting

• paint

Multiple Choice

He was _____ the story to the boy.

• read

• reading

• reads

• readed

Multiple Choice

The stories were being _____ by him.

• read

• reads

• reading

• readed

Any Questions before we move on...?

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