Practice passive voice

1. Unit 1
Relationships

2. Grammar: Passive Voice
 The subject receives the action.
 The performer of the action is unknown or not important (by me).
 We can change from the active voice to passive voice
 ACTIVE VOICE
Miguel Angel sculpted the “David”.
 PASSIVE VOICE
David was sculpted by Miguel Angel.

3. Passive Voice: Simple Present
be (am, is, are) + Verb in past participle

4. Passive Voice: Simple Past
be (was/ were) + Verb in past participle

5. Complete with S. Present or S. Past of the
Passive Voice (Practice)
ACTIVE VOICE PASSIVE VOICE
Ms. McGreen signs the contracts. The contracts are signed by Ms. McGreen.
Ms. McGreen signed the contracts. The contracts were signed by Ms. McGreen.
Tania wrote a love letter.
Esthela sings the National Anthem.
The cat caught a little mouse.
A company made my car in Germany.
Bookshops don’t sell that book in

6. Complete with S. Present or S. Past of the
Passive Voice
ACTIVE VOICE PASSIVE VOICE
Ms. McGreen signs the contracts. The contracts are signed by Ms. McGreen.
Ms. McGreen signed the contracts. The contracts were signed by Ms. McGreen.
Tania wrote a love letter. A love letter was written by Tania.
Esthela sings the National Anthem. The National Anthem is sung by Esthela.
The cat caught a little mouse. A little mouse was caught by the cat.
A company made my car in Germany. My car was made by a company in Germany.
Bookshops don’t sell that book in That book isn’t sold by bookshops in

7. Passive Voice practice
 You will see a picture and 2 names one is the doer
(the creator) and the object.
 Take your notebook and write the passive voice
sentence.
 Example:
 Salvador Dali designed that building.
 That building was designed by Salvador Dali.
object doer

8. Exercises: write on your notebook the passive voice sentence.
Graham Bell
Telephone

9. The telephone was invented by Graham Bell.

10. Passive
Monalisa
Leonardo Da Vinci

11. Monalisa was painted by Leonardo DaVinci.

12. Passive
Self-portrait
Owaldo Guayasamín

13. Self-portrait was painted by Oswaldo
Guayasamín.

14. Passive
Othello
William Shakespeare

15. Othello was written by William Shakespeare.

16. Passive
James Cameron
Titanic

17. Titanic was directed byJamesCameron.

18. Passive
Pulp Fiction
QuentinTarantino

19. Pulp Fiction was directed byQuentinTarantino.

20. Passive
Jorge Icaza
Huasipungo

21. Huasipungo was written by Jorge Icaza.

22. Passive
Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling

23. Harry Potter was written by J.K. Rowling.