The document discusses the passive voice in English. It provides examples of changing sentences from active to passive voice using different tenses, including the present, past, future, perfect, and modal verbs. It also provides practice exercises for students to change active voice sentences into passive voice.

1. THE PASSIVE
VOICE

2. TO BE + PAST PARTICIPLE + BY + SUBJECT
 Examples:
 Mary writes very interesting books
( Active Voice)
 Very interesting books are written by Mary
(Passive Voice)

3. MY PARENTS SELL LAST MODEL CARS IN
THE MAIN AVENUE.
LAST MODEL CARS ARE SOLD BY MY
PARENTS IN THE MAIN AVENUE.
The famous singer sings rock songs in the
concert.
Rock songs are sung by the famous singer in
the concert.

4. More examples.
* The baby sees funny cartoons in the TV
* My best friend cleans his bedroom every Saturday.
• Students do interesting homework at school
• My mom cooks delicious peruvian food on
weekends.
• The architects build a modern building in the
avenue.
• The girl reads romantic stories in her free time.

5. Past Passive Voice
TO BE IN PAST + PAST PARTICIPLE VERB + BY+ SUBJECT
Examples:
• Shakespeare wrote Hamlet ( active voice )
• Hamlet was written by Shakespeare ( passive
voice)
• My father drew great pictures in the exhibition
• Great pictures were drawn by my father in the
exhibition.

6. More examples
 The secretary saw some cultural videos in the office.
 The player got three goals in the last match.
 My grandparents sent me a different present for my
birthday.
 Hiran Brigham discovered MachuPicchu in 1911
 The thieves stole some houses in the middle of the
night.
 The police made a new report in the main square.

7. PRACTICE
1.The students created a very interesting essay
about the nature.
2. The secretary types different school documents
in the morning.
3. Hiran Brigham discovered the Machu Picchu
Ruins in 1911.
4. The child will drink all the milk bottle in the
morning.
5.Some sportmen have jumped the London Bridge
in the dawn.
6. Mario Vargas Llosa has produced very controversial books in all his
life.

8.  7 The doctors will do an emergency surgery in the
hospital.
 8.Chinese people have bought free tickets for the
concert.
 9 The mechanics can fix old cars in two hours.
 10 Students must do the homework everyday.

9. ACTIVE VOICE PASSIVE VOICE
VERB IN PRESENT TO BE + VERB IN PAST
PARTICIPLE
VERB IN PAST TO BE + VERB IN PAST
PARTICIPLE
FUTURE TENSE (WILL) WOULD + BEEN+ V.P.P
PRESENT PERFECT HAD + BEEN+ VPP
PAST PERFECT HAD + BEEN + VPP
MODALS(can,should,must,
Might ;Could,may)
MODAL+ TO BE+ VPP

10. 11. A well known singer can sign thousand of
autographs in the Aventura Plaza Mall.
12. The teacher teaches the Passive Voice
Lesson to the english students in the third
floor of the school.
13. The artist has drawn a very colorful
sightseeing picture in the middle of the main
square.
14. Gaston Acurio represents our peruvian
gastronomy , and in the best way for all over
the world.
15. The England Collonies conquested North
America in the 18th. Century.

11.  16The Huascar Ship confronted to the
Esmerald Ship in the Iquique Combat in 1879.
 17 Two hundred thousand people died in the
Indonesia Tsunami in 2004.
 18. Nostradamus has done many phofecies
about the Judish Global Holocauste.
 19. Salvador Dali painted the most famous
impresionist pictures in the world.

12. CLASS PRACTICE
 Think about some inventions , literature books ,
music ,programs,etc and write twenty sentences in
active voice and change them to the passive voice.
 Use all the tenses.
 Examples:
 Mario Vargas Llosa has written El Sueño de
Zelta.
 El Sueño de Zelta has been written by Mario
Vargas Llosa.

13. THE STORY OF JEANS
Jeans (wear)………………………………………by people all over the world.
Millions of pairs of jeans(buy)……………………………………..everyday. Jeans
(make)…………………………………..from cotton. The
cotton(pick)……………………………………and
(make)………………………………..into a cloth called denim. The denim
(color)……………………………………….blue. The
denim(make)……………………………Into jeans by women workers who are
usually badly (pay)…………………………. Then the
jeans(take)………………………………………………..to stores where they
(sell)…………………………………..for twice the cost of making them. The word
“jeans” comes from Italy. Over three hundred years ago the people of
Genoa wore cotton clothes and the cloth
(know)…………………………………………..as “jeans” after the name of the
town.
The first jeans (make)…………………………………………in the USA as early as
1638.A man called Levi Strauss went to California from New York in 1853
and in 1872 the first Levi jeans (make)……………………………………… The
famous Levi label(use)……………………………………………….first in 1886, and
the first Levi 501s (sell)………………………..in 1890. This great jeans
(buy)………………………………………………for millions all over the world.

14.  What has been written by Garcia Marquez?
 ……………………has been written by ………….
 When was America discovered? Who by?
 America ………. …………………by ………….in …………
 Who was Machupichu discovered by?
 Machupichu …… ......................by ………..in …….