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    PASSIVE VOICE

    Active voice

    In most English sentences with an action verb, the subject performs the action
    denoted by the verb.

    These examples show that the subject is doing the verb's action.

    Because the subject does or "acts upon" the verb in such sentences, the sentences are
    said to be in the active voice.

    Passive voice

    One can change the normal word order of many active sentences (those with a direct
    object) so that the subject is no longer active, but is, instead, being acted upon by the
    verb - or passive.
    Note in these examples how the subject-verb relationship has changed.

    Because the subject is being "acted upon" (or is passive), such sentences are said to be
    in the passive voice.

    NOTE: Colorful parrots live in the rainforests cannot be changed to passive voice
    because the sentence does not have a direct object.

    Active passive

    The hunter killed the lion. >> The lion was killed by the hunter.

    Someone has cleaned the windows >> The windows have been cleaned

    The passive forms are made up of the verb be with a past participle:

    be past participle

    English Is spoken all over the world

    The windows have been cleaned


    be past participle

    Lunch was being served

    The work will be finished soon

    They might have been invited to the party

    We sometimes use the verb get to form the passive:


    Be careful with the glass. It might get broken.
    Peter got hurt in a crash.
    If we want to show the person or thing doing the action we use by:
    She was attacked by a dangerous dog.
    The money was stolen by her husband.
    We can use the indirect object as the subject of a passive verb:

    active passive

    I gave him a book for his birthday >> He was given a book for his birthday.

    Someone sent her a cheque for a She was sent a cheque for a thousand
    >>
    thousand euros euros.

    We can use phrasal verbs in the passive:


    Active passive

    They called off the meeting. >> The meeting was called off.

    His grandmother looked after him. >> He was looked after by his grandmother.

    They will send him away to school. >> He will be sent away to school.

    Some verbs very frequently used in the passive are followed by the to-infinitive:

    be supposed to be expected to be asked to

    be scheduled to be allowed to be told to

    John has been asked to make a speech at the meeting.


    You are supposed to wear a uniform.
    The meeting is scheduled to start at seven.
    1. Read and analyze the sentences in active voice and passive voice and
    complete with the following verbs that correspond in each sentence.

    Buys wrote eat cancelled cooked


    bought written cancel eaten
    cooking

    ACTIVE VOICE PASSIVE VOICE

    01 He buys these cars. These cars are………………..by him.

    02 Stanley………………..this article. This article was written by Stanley.

    03 We eat a pizza. ……………………………………………………..

    04 The referee cancelled the match. The math was…………………..by the referee.

    05 Alex was cooking dinner. The dinner was being……………….by Alex.

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