PASSIVE VOICE

Past participle is used in

• Past Perfect

• Passive Voice

• Passive Voice and Perfect Tenses

• Reported Speech

You can use Passive Voice to:

• speak about who was important in the sentence.

• change the focus of your sentence.

• change the meaning of the sentence.

• write formal and informal speeches.

This is an active sentence:

• We must to study.

• Study must be by us.

• The children eat the cake.

• The cake must be eaten by children.

In the passive voice:

• The object is more important than the subject.

• The action is the most important.

• You must pay attention to the complement.

• You have to conjugate the main verb.

Why should you use the Passive Voice?

• You don´t want to say who or what did the action.

• You don´t know who did the action.

• The object is the most important part of the sentence.

• all of them.

When do people use passive voice?

• Journalists can´t say who did something or they don´t know who did it.

• Scientific reports or legal documents, the information has to be objective.

• A and B are true.

A passive voice sentence

• The cake was eaten by the childen.

• The children ate the cake.

• The cake be eaten by them.

• The children were eating the cake.

In the passive voice we use this word at the end of the sentence:

• be

• Them

• to the

• by

When you use the word BY in Passive voice, it means

• Who or what did the action.

• The action is the most important.

• The verb must be conjugated.

• The complement is the main part of the sentence.

The first step to work Passive voice is:

• Move the object to become the new subject of the sentence.

• identify the subject, the verb and the object in the active.

• Add the past participle of the main verb.

• Subject of the action sentence.