CLASS OBJECTIVES

• Learn to use the passive voice in past and future.• Improve the elaboration of sentences.• Use the passive voice in day by day.

ENGLISH IV

PASSIVE AND ACTIVE VOICE

PROF. SOLORZANO VILLARRUEL SOFIA

1. PAST VOICE

ACTIVE VOICE:

SUBJECT + VERB + OBJECT (AGENT) (PAST)

Example:

THE CAT KILLED THE MOUSE.

PASSIVE VOICE:

(Past

Participle Verb) IF IS NECESSARY

OBJECT + WAS/WERE + PPV + (BY _______)

(AGENT)

Example:

THE MOUSE WAS KILLED (BY THE CAT)

EXAMPLES:• ACT: A man saw a UFO yesterday.• PASS: A UFO was seen yesterday (by a man).

• ACT: The police found exotics birds in a house.• PASS: Exotics birds were found in a house.

“Passive voice is important when you don´t know the subject; is typical in history”

• MACHU PICCHU – DISCOVER – 1911

• Machu Picchu was discovered in 1911.

• CESAR VALLEJO – WROTE – TRILCE

• Trilce was written by Cesar Vallejo.

• Create sentences in passive voice (past) with this pictures:

EXERCISES:

2. FUTURE VOICE

ACTIVE VOICE:

SUBJECT + WILL + VERB + OBJECT

Example:

I WILL WRITE A LETTER.

PASSIVE VOICE:

(Past Participle Verb) IF IS NECESSARY

OBJECT + WILL + BE + PPV + (BY _______)

(AGENT)

Example:

A LETTER WILL BE WRITTEN (BY ME).

• ACT: People will wear plastic clothes.• PASS: Plastic clothes will be worn (by people).

• ACT: Robots will replace boyfriends.• PASS: Boyfriends will be replaced by robots.

EXAMPLES:

Create sentences in passive voice (future) with this pictures:

EXERCISES:

REFERENCES:

• Class of the professor Kiara Sáenz of USIL.• Images of Google Images