The document discusses the passive voice in English. It notes that the passive voice allows actions or states to be emphasized, without focusing on the subject performing the action. It also discusses how the passive voice is used to describe completed actions or states. While the passive voice of processes is used, the passive voice is not commonly used in everyday language and is more common in official or news writing. The document then provides examples of forming the passive voice across tenses and with modal verbs. It explains how active sentences are transformed into passive sentences by making the object the subject and using forms of "to be" plus the past participle. When the agent is included, it is introduced by "by". Finally, it provides examples of transforming active

1. THE PASSIVE
VOICE
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2. Use of the passive voice
• La voz pasiva permite enfatizar una acción o un estado. El
sujeto de la acción no tiene relevancia, no se conoce o se
asume que todo el mundo lo conoce.
• La voz pasiva de proceso se usa para enfatizar una
acción. La voz pasiva de estado describe un suceso una
vez que este ya ha finalizado.
• Sin embargo, la voz pasiva de proceso no se suele
emplear. Se recurre a ella principalmente en el lenguaje
oficial o en ciertos artículos de prensa. En el lenguaje
corriente se usa más bien la voz activa o la voz pasiva
refleja .

3. Form of the passive verb
Tense Active Passive
Present Simple Tourists visit be castle. The castle is visited by tourists.
Past Simple Tourists visited the castle. The castle was visited by tourists.
Future Simple Tourists will visit the castle. The castle will be visited by
tourists.
Modals Tourists should visit the castle. The castle should be visited by
tourists.
Present Continuous Tourists are visiting the castle. The castle is being visited by
touritst.
Past Continuous Tourists were visiting the castle. The castle was being visited by
touritst.
Present Perfect Simple Tourists have visited the castle. The castle has been visited by
tourits.
Past Perfect Simple Tourists had visited the castle. The castle had been visited by
tourists.
Modal Perfect Tourists must have visited the
castle.
The castle must have been visited
by tourists.

4. Changes in the sentence
• Para transformar una oración activa a pasiva tenemos en
cuenta los siguientes puntos:
• El objeto de la oración activa pasa a ser el sujeto de la
pasiva.
• El verbo principal se sustituye por el auxiliar "to be", en
su mismo tiempo, junto al verbo principal en participio.
• El sujeto de la oración principal pasa a ser complemento
agente de la pasiva.
• Si hacemos mención en la oración del sujeto que realiza
la acción (sujeto agente), este irá normalmente
precedido por la preposición "by".

5. Choose 5 sentences in the active voice
and turn them into passive voice.
ACTIVE PASSIVE
Sam repaired the car. The car was repaired by Sam.
Someone will finish the work by
5:00 PM.
The work will be finished by 5:00
PM.
Sally is going to make a beautiful
dinner tonight.
A beautiful dinner is going to be
made by Sally tonight.
They will have completed the
project before the deadline.
The project will have been
completed before the deadline
Right now, Sarah is writing the
letter
Right now, the letter is being
written by Sarah.

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