PASSIVE VOICE – PRESENT

AND PAST
FOUTH LEVELS
TITANIC
• The Titanic was directed
by James Cameron.
• It was released in 1997.

• James Cameron
directed the Titanic.
The monalisa
• The Monalisa was
painted by Da Vinci.

• Da Vinci painted The

Monalisa
THRILLER
• Thriller was recorded by
Michael Jackson.

• Michael Jackson recorded

the álbum Thriller.
 PONCHOS IN OTAVALO

• Otavaleños sell ponchos

every day.

• Ponchos are sold every

day in Otavalo.
 EMPOWER
PLATFORM
• Students have to check the
platform every day.

• The Empower platform is

checked every day (by students)
 PASSIVE VOICE

• The DOER is not important. (doer=hacedor/quien hace la acción)

• The most important is the OBJECT of the sentence. (Object=objeto/el cual recibe la acción)
• The main thing is the OBJECT.

• WE CAN USE THE WORD BY, when:

• THE DOER IS IMPORTANT
• WE KNOW THE NAME OF THE DOER.
• BY GOES AT THE END OF THE PASSIVE VOICE.
Examples:
•Am I invited to your party?
•I was called by my boss.
Passive voice – present & past

PASSIVE VOICE IN PRESENT PASSIVE VOICE IN PAST

• Am / Is / are + V past • Was / were + V past
participle time. participle time.
EXAMPLES: EXAMPLES:
 Passive voice – never needs:

• Auxilaries:
• Did
• Does
• Do

• Because we can have negative sentences and questions using:

• Am not
• Isn’t
• Aren’t
• Wasn’t
• Weren’t
 Passive voice my examples:

• ACTIVE: A fire destroyed many part of London in 1666.

• PASSIVE: Many part of Lindon were destroyed in 1666.

• ACTIVE: Somebody broke a window in the night.

• PASSIVE: A window was broken in the night.

• ACTIVE: Adrian Doff wrote the EMPOWER book.

• PASSIVE: Empower book was written by Adrian Doff

• ACTIVE: We use Every day the TEAMS app.

• PASSIVE: Teams is used every day.
OBJECT PRONOUNS
• I – ME ------- CALL ME
• YOU – YOU
• SHE – HER
• HE – HIM ---------- HUG HIM HUG HE
• WE – US
• THEY – THEM
• IT – IT