Active and

ENGLISH 7 | MODULE 3
Passive
Voice
ENGLISH 7
QUARTER 1 | WEEK 4

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Things to remember:
ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE

Simple Past Tense of the Verb

ENGLISH 7
MODULE 3
Past Participle of the Verb

BE - verbs (is, are, was, were)

Future Tense - will be


dance - danced, walk - walked
eat - ate , write - wrote , do - did
Simple Past
The simple past is a
verb tense that is used
to talk about things
that happened or
existed before now.
 Past
Participle
A past participle is a
word that (1) formed
dance - danced, walk - walked from a verb, (2) is used
eat - eaten , write - written , do - done
as an adjective or to
form verb tense, and (3)
probably ends with "-
ed," "-d," "-t," "-en," or "-
n."
 Example: take
took- simple past taken - past participle
Identify the
Simple Past 1. shake 6. change
and Past 2. buy 7. bite
Participle of 3. play 8. know
4. break 9. blow
the verbs
5. cook 10. freeze
A VERB IN THE ACTIVE VOICE
TELLS US THAT THE ACTION IS
DONE BY THE SUBJECT WHILE A
VERB IN THE PASSIVE VOICE
TELLS US THAT THE ACTION IS
DONE TO THE SUBJECT. ACTIVE VS
PASSIVE VOICE
 A VERB IN THE ACTIVE VOICE
TELLS US THAT THE ACTION IS
DONE BY THE SUBJECT WHILE A
VERB IN THE PASSIVE VOICE
ACTIVE VS TELLS US THAT THE ACTION IS
DONE TO THE SUBJECT.
PASSIVE VOICE
 ACTIVE VOICE
SUBJECT - DOER OF THE ACTION
Mother cooks the pasta.

ACTIVE VS
PASSIVE VOICE
PASSIVE VOICE
SUBJECT - RECEIVER OF THE ACTION
The pasta is cooked by
mother.
 Question: Are
verbs in the
passive voice
Did you
know? always followed
by the word by?
ANSWER: NO! AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE
PASSIVE IS USUALLY USED WITHOUT A BY-
PHRASE.
Take a look!
Here, the verb can be infected is not
followed by the word by, but still, it is in the
passive voice because the action (of
infecting) is done not by the subject both
the young and the old; instead, it is done to
the the subject both the young and the old.
PRESENT
PROGRESSIVE
IS OR ARE + -ING
PRESENT PERFECT
HAS OR HAVE +
PARTICIPLE
PAST
PROGRESSIVE
WAS OR WERE +
-ING
Changing ACTIVE TO
Voices Passive Voice
Active to Passive
Active to Passive
 Thousands of tourists visit
the Lion's Head every
year.

Identify the subject, verb and

object.
Let's Practice!
Identify the VERB TENSE. Decide
whether is, are, was, were etc
Switch the position of SUBJECT
AND OBJECT.

Change the equavelent verb from

its active form to the passive.
 Answer/s:

The Lion's Head is visited

by thousands of tourists
every year.
Let's Practice!

Every year, the Lion's

Head is visited by
thousands of tourists.
 PASSIVE TO
Now let's
try this!
Active
Passive to Active
Passive to Active
Passive to Active
 Cash Aids will be given to
all qualified residents by
the local government.

Identify the subject, passive verb and

Let's Practice!
by-phrase.

Identify the VERB TENSE.

Switch the position of SUBJECT

AND BY-PHRASE.
Change the equivalent verb from
its passive to active form.