Passive Voice

Hello everyone!

Today we will be discussing the passive voice!
What is that you ask???

Well... in a normal sentence we have:

• a subject (the person doing an action)
• a verb (the action)
• an object (the thing receiving an action)

For example: 

Luis plays soccer everyday. 

But passive voice has a very different structure, because we are more interested in WHAT happened, and not so much in WHO did the action or the person responsible is unknown. 

So to change a normal sentence (active voice) to passive voice we have to change the order and ADD the verb to be! 

We have to invert the position of the subject and the object, and we have to ADD the verb to be (in present or past, depending on the original sentence) and change the verb to the past participle! If we know the person doing the action we add BY before it!

So from our original example: 

Luis plays soccer everyday. 

This sentence changed to passive voice is:

Soccer is played by Luis everyday. 

More examples:

	Active	Passive
Simple Present	Once a week, Tom cleans the house.	Once a week, the house is cleaned by Tom.
Simple Past	Sam repaired the car.	The car was repaired by Sam.

VIDEOS

Here are some videos to help you understand the topic a little better! 

Practice!

Now, it's time to practice!!! Here are some links to help you!

Passive voice in the present!

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/active_passive/form_sentences_simple_present.htm

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive/exercises?simple-present

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/passive-exercise-1.html

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/active_passive/sentences_simple_present.htm


Passive voice in the past!

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/active_passive/form_sentences_simple_past.htm

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive/exercises?simple-past

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/passive-exercise-2.html

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/active_passive/sentences_simple_past.htm



Mixed exercises!

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/complex_tests/passive1/index.php

Game!

http://www.eslgamesplus.com/passive-voice-past-passive-esl-grammar-sentence-activity-fun-game-online/