Passive Voice

​WELCOME

​Sara bakes a cake.

​The cake is baked

(by Sara).

​I fried fish.

​The fish was fried

(by me).

​Passive Voice

​We use passive voice:

• When we don't know or do not want to express who performed the action.

  • ​The fruit was eaten.

  • The vegetables are disinfected.

• When we want to say or know who did the action.

  • The butter was melted in the pan by Mr. Green.

  • The eggs are scrambled by mom.

​The boy cooks dinner.

​Dinner is cooked by the boy

​The boy cooked dinner.

​Dinner was cooked by the boy

​Let's practice

1. Susan bought some fruit.

2. ​They boil two eggs for breakfast.

3. She peels a banana.

4. Tom and Peter whipped

   butter and sugar.

​Answers

1. Some fruit was bought by Susan.

2. ​Two eggs were boiled for breakfast.

3. A banana is peeled.

4. Butter and sugar were

   whipped by Tom and Peter.

Multiple Choice

Active: Antonella tastes the meal.

Passive: ...

• Antonella tasted the meal

• The meal was tasted by Antonella

• The meal is tasted by Antonella.

Multiple Choice

Active: Sophia added pepper to the pasta.

Passive: ...

• Pepper was added to the pasta.

• Sophia added pepper,

• Pepper is added by Sophia.

Multiple Choice

Active: She serves the dishes to the customers.

Pasive: ...

• She was served the dishes

• The dishes are served by her.

• The dishes were served.

Multiple Choice

Active: Pablo ate all his food.

Passive: ...

• He eaten the food.

• The food was eaten by Pablo.

• Pablo ete all his food.

​Summarizing:

• The passive voice is used when we don't know who is doing the action.​

• To change ​active sentences to passive sentences, we have to identify the tense and use the correct to be verb. (am, is, are / was, were)

• U​se the past participle after the to be verb.

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