The document discusses passive voice in English and provides examples of changing sentences from active to passive voice and vice versa. It explains that passive voice is used when the focus is on the action rather than the subject performing the action. Several examples are given of changing between active and passive voice in both the simple past and present tenses.

1. Did you know that? Passive with by (Simple Past) Passive witout by (Simple Present) By Profr. Jose M. Jaramillo S. November, 2008

2. Movies, actors, actresses and singers

3. Sylvester Stallone participated in all Rambo’s movies Will Smith starred in the great movie Legend. Harry Potter’s books won millions dollars. Steven Spielberg produced Jurassic Park’s movies. Spiderman 3 collected 59 millions dollars in the first week.

4. Salma Hayek produced a play in Mexico. Mel Gibson produced the film The Passion of the Christ. RBD sang their songs in differents languagues. Pedro Damian created this sucesfull serie.

5. Britney Spears sold millions of Cd’s. Karla Estrada produced Pasion in Televisa. Gabriela Saavedra an excellent photograper took great pictures in televisa.

6. The last Generation in the CAADI offered a Bride Shower to Ericka. The principal directed the High School 14 in 2007

7. Passive voice is used when the focus is on the action. It is not important or not known, however, who or what is performing the action. Example: Passive Voice Rita wrote a letter. Active Voice The letter was written by Rita Passive Voice Subject + verb + object Object + was/were + past participle + subject

8. Check this examples: The president opened the building. (active voice) Here the emphasis is on the president . The building was opened by the president. (passive voice) Here the emphasis is on the building . Mike repaired the car. The emphasis is in Mike. The car was repaired by Mike. Now, the emphasis is in the car.

9. Active Voice Passive Voice Sylvester Stallone starred in all Rambo’s films Rambo’s films were starred by Sylvester Stallone. Harry Potter’s books won millions dollars. Millions dollars were won by Harry Potte’s books. Steven Spielberg produced Jurassic Park’s movies. Jurassic Park’s films were produced by Steven Spielberg. Pedro Damian created this sucesfull RBD’S serie. RBD’s series were created by Pedro Damian Mel Gibson produced the film The Passion of the Christ. The Passion of the Christ was produced by Mel Gibson. Gabriela Saavedra took great pictures in televisa. The pictures were taken by Gabriela Saavedra. Britney Spears sold millions of Cd’s. Millions of Cd’s were sold by Britney Spears..

10. Write passive sentences in past tense. The test/ write _______ the test was written . The table/ set _______________________________ The cat/ feed _______________________________ The lights/switch on _______________________________ The house/build _______________________________ Dinner/serve _______________________________ This computer/sell/not_______________________________ The car/stop/not ________________________________ The tables/clean/not ________________________________ The children/pick up/not______________________________

11. Let’s paractice more!! Rewrite the sentences given in Passive Voice. Example: Frank built the house/ The house was built by Frank She bouhgt four apples. _______________________________ We won the match. _______________________________ The man stole the blue car. _______________________________ The police arrested the thieves._____________________________ The dog bit the old lady. _______________________________ Victoria taught the children. _______________________________ Oliver rode the brown horse. _______________________________ Grandmother told the storires_______________________________ Tom ate 5 hamburges. _______________________________

12. Mexico is great!

13. People manufacture shoes in Guanajuato Mexico exports tequila in different countries. Michoacan cultivates a lot of different kind of flowers.

14. Teran grows oranges trees every year. Linares produces milk candies. Teran raises cattle like cows and goats.

15. People in Teran consume barbacoa on Sundays. Nuevo Leon grows corn and Wheat. Most families grow chickens in their houses.

16. Mexico manufactures some clothes and jewerly. Craftsmen produce crafts with all kind of material.

17. Passive Voice with Present Tense The passive voice with Present Tense we still using the verbs in Past Participle but the verb to be in Simple Present: Active Voice Passive Voice People manufacture shoes in Guanajuato In Guanajuato are manufactured shoes. Subject + verb + object Object + is/are + past participle

18. Active Voice Passive Voice Mexico exports tequila in different countries. Tequila is exported in different countries. Michoacan cultivates a lot of different kind of flowers. Beautiful flowers are cultivated in Michoacan. Teran grows oranges trees every year. Oranges trees are grown in Teran Linares producse milk candies. Milk candies are produce in Linares. People in Teran consume barbacoa. Barbacoa is consumed in Teran.

19. Write passive voice in the next statements. (use simple present) Mr. Jones watches the film __The film is wathed__________________________________ 2. The people speak French. __________________________________________________ 3. He reads comics. __________________________________________________ 4. We play volleyball. __________________________________________________ 5. They sing the songs. __________________________________________________ 6. I take the photos. __________________________________________________ 7. She does the housework. __________________________________________________ 8. The policeman help the children __________________________________________________ 9. He writes text messages.. __________________________________________________ 10. My mother waters the plants. __________________________________________________

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