8/18/2019 8 - Consumerism – Passive Voice (10) - Soluções(2)

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  Use and Form – Basic Rules 

Remember:   We use the Passive voice when what happens is

more important than who does it.

  The object of the active sentence becomes the

subject of the passive voice. 

  We form  the Passive voice  with  the auxiliaryverb Be (always in the same tense as the verb

in the active voice) and the  Past Participle of

the main verb, followed by a by-phrase, the

agent, when we know who or what performed

the action.

1. I forget (singular, S. Past) 

2.discover (Plural, S. Past) 

3. make (singular, S. Present) 

4. build (Plural, S. Present) 

5. forget (Plural, S. Past) 

6. leave (Plural, S. Past) 

7. produce (Plural, S.Present) 

8. leave (singular, S. Past) 

9. build (singular, S. S. Past) 

10. send (singular, S. Present) 

Match the forms of the Active verbs withtheir corresponding Passive forms.

Read the following piece of news.Cross out the wrong verb forms. 

Rewrite each sentence in the Passive: 

Doctor George Tiller, 67, was at the morning

services this Sunday when he was shot/ shot,

police said. The gunman was fired/fired one shot

at Tiller and was threatened/ threatened  two

other people who tried to stop him.  The suspect

was taken/ took  into custody in a Kansas City

suburb 3 hours after the shooting. Outside Tiller’s

clinic, flowers were placed/ placed along a fence,

and Kansas Coalition for Life was left/ left a sign

saying members were prayed/ prayed  for hischange of heart "not his murder. A man yelled that

Tiller’s hands were covered/covered with blood.

Children’s dayis celebrated on June 1st.

1. They built 3 new schools last year.

Three new schools were built last year.

2. Thousands of people visit the Azores.

The Azores are visited by thousands of people. 

3. Someone stole my purse from my locker.

My purse was stolen from my locker. 

4. The monkey painted that picture.

That picture was painted by the monkey. 

5. Millions of teenagers read her books.

Her books are read by millions of teenagers. 

Street traders sell black-market products.

Black-market products are sold  by street traders.

Sub ect Ob ectVerb 

Sub ect Agent Verb 

Yeah…Lots oftrees wereplanted 

 yesterday.

Write an active sentence and a passivesentence from these prompts. 

1. The little boy / the wallet/ yesterday/ find.

a) The little boy found the wallet yesterday. 

b)  The wallet was found yesterday by the little boy

2. Teachers/ students/ good manners/ teach.

a) Teachers teach their students good manners

b) Good manners are taught to the students. 

3. Somebody/ the students’ bikes/ steal 

a) Somebody stole the students’ bikes. 

b)The students’ bikes were stolen.

THANK YU! 

a) were forgotten

b) were left

c) was forgotten

d) was left

e) are built

f) is sent

g) were discovered 

h) was built

i) is made

 j) are produced