Passive

Passives

By Alex Bocaniala

Content

• Previous knowledge

• New content

• Concept checking questions

Open Ended

Give examples of passive in your mother tongue.

Word Cloud

What do you understand by agent?

​Use and function

We use the passive voice to change the focus of the sentence.

ACTIVE : Someone stole my bike.

PASSIVE: My bike was stolen.

​Passive

​Active

​Use and function

• When we prefer not to mention who or what does the action

• The most important or most logical information is forgrounded

• In more formal or scientific writing

4^th Only be changes to make the tense. The past participle stays the same.

1^st The verb be + past participle

2^nd We start the sentence with the object
3^rd It is not always necessary to add who or what did the action. (by XY...)

How to form the passive

is/are + past participle
is/are being + past participle
was/were + past participle
was/were being + past participle
has/have been + past participle
had been + past participle
will be + past participle

Present simple
Present continuous
Past simple
Past continuous
Present perfect
Past perfect
Future simple

Construction

Open Ended

Transform the following sentence in passive: Mike made a mistake, however he is working on a solution.

Multiple Select

When do we use passive?

• When we want to convey a higher register.

• When the agent is irrelevant.

• All of them.

• When the agent becomes an observer.

• To express disagreement.

Open Ended

Transform the following sentence in passive: James has been searching for my wallet all day long.

Identify agent and recipient.


Transform sentences from active into passive form.


How to forground information.

Now we can...

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