Explicación de la voz pasiva en ingles. Contiene su usos, estructuras, cambios en los diferentes tiempos verbales y algunas frases como ejemplo.

1. PASSIVE VOICE
María López Perea

2. USES
 The voice passive in English, unlike the Spanish, is
frequently use. It is more formal.
 We use the voice passive when we don´t know who is the
subject , or isn't important.
 We also use it when we want to give more importance a
the action.
 We don´t use passive voice with verbs as : arrive, go, die,
because its haven't Object direct.

3. STRUCTURE
 First, we are going to see the structure in the active voice
and the changes in the passive voice. We are going to
start with a easy sentence: I eat a delicious pizza:
 I eat a delicious pizza (active)
 A delicious pizza is eatten by me(passive)

4. SUBJECT
 In the last sentence, the first change we have seen is the
suject. Now the subject (active voice) become to C. Agent,
and the object direct is become to patient subject, so we
will use the personal pronouns:
 I eat a delicious pizza- A delicious pizza is eaten by me.
-me
-you
-him/her/it
-us
-them
By+

5. “BY”
 We use the “by”, when we write the subject(pacient suject):
 María watch the program
 The program is watched by María.
Before
of
Suject

6. VERB
 Other important point for change the active voice and
passive voice: the verb. To formulate the passive
sentence:
 Conjugate the verb “to be”, in the same tense as the active sentence
 Put the main verb in the Past Participle form . Past Participle is the third column,
for example the verb “write”: write/wrote/written. This last is of the third
column,and is the necessary for the passive voice. Some examples to see the
change of the verb:
 J. K rowlin wrote books of Harry Potter(active)
 Books of Harry Potter was written by J. K Rowling (pasive)
To be(past
form)+ Past
participle

7. CHANGES IN THE DIFFERENT TENSES
 We are going to see the change each tense:
 Present simple
 Active: My mum cook a chocolate cake every week
 Passive: A chocolate cake is cooked by mum every week
 Past simple:
 Active: My dad fixed a big car.
 Passive: A big car was fixed by my dad

8. TENSES PERFECT
 Present perfect
 Active: Elena has written a letter
 Passive: a letter has been written by Elena
 Past perfect simple:
 Active: My brother had eaten a sweet.
 Passive: A sweet had been eaten by my brother

9. FUTURE WITH WILL AND GOING TO
 Future with will:
 Active: Spain will win a prize next year.
 Passive: A prize will be won by Spain.
 Future with going to:
 Active:He is going to watch a film.
 Pasive: A film is going to be watched.

10. MODALS VERBS
 Can:
 Active: Elena can write an email
 Passive: An email can be written by Elena
 Should:
 Active: You should see a doctor
 Passive: A doctor should be seen
 Must:
 Active:Everybody must wear a uniform
 Passive: A uniform must be worn.

11. MORE EXAMPLES
 Filocles built a important temple: A temple was built by
Filocles.
 Ana clean a big house: A big house is cleaned by
her/Ana.
 My brother ate two ice-creams of vainilla: Two ice-creams
were eaten by my brother.
 He has driven a bus: A bus has been driven.
 He will buy a new shoes next week : a new shoes will be
bought.