Ac. 2 Unit 7ª Passive with Continuous, Present Perfect, and Future.

Passive voice and Active voice Use:

Passive Voice = “BE” + Past participle
“Be” = am, is, are, was, were, be, being and been.
1-Active voice means that a sentence has a subject that acts upon its verb.
-The subject does the action. -Pepe jumps/is jumping.
2-Passive Voice means the subject is the recipient of the verb’s action.
-The subject receives the action from the verb. (The verb is the Past
Participle)
3- There are verbs that cannot be in Passive because they are Illogical
when in the Passive. You must use the most logical Past Participle. Verbs
like “have, go” etc.
4- How do you know what Passive tense to use in an exam??
The time expression and precise information will give you the correct
Passive verb tense.M
S V. Ph. C = Obj. = Noun/N. Ph.
Active: Xavier cleans the black board.
Active: He is studying languages.
Obj.= Subj. V. Ph. Agent + Obj. (Obj. Pronoun)
Passive: The black board is being cleaned by Xavier/him.
Passive: Languages are being studied by him.
Object Pronouns = me, you, him, her, it, us, you, them. Obj. of a sentence
= my car, the teacher, our boss, Judy’s class, English, China, Lunch, etc.
1-Simple Present and Present Continuous have the same time expressions
or Modifiers of time = every day, every week, every weekend, etc.
Adverbs = always, usually, regularly, etc. / once per week, currently,
today, these days, at the moment, nowadays, at this time, now, right now,
etc.
S + be + being + Past Participle
A: The teacher teaches English today/currently/every day.
P: English is being taught by the teacher currently.
A: Cars are polluting the air today.
P: Today, the air is being polluted by cars.
A: I have English classes every day.
P: English classes are being given/taught/imparted by me every day.
2-Present perfect: Indefinite (No) time = since, for, earlier, later, recently,
lately, for a while, already, yet, never, ever, etc.
S + has/have + been + Past Participle
A: Traffic has damaged the streets lately.
P: Lately, the streets have been damaged by traffic.
A: Julie has gone to Paris recently.
P: Paris has been visited by Julie recently.
Choose which verb applies best:
-Children (are asking/ask/ have been asking/have asked) for new cell
phones at a younger and younger age.
Choose if it is Active or Passive:
-The children _________ (wait) for their mom to call before bed time.
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3a- Will/Won’t (Adv.) be + Past Participle = less than 50% Adv.=
Maybe/Perhaps, probably, possibly, I’m not sure/certain, etc.
S V Ph. C=Obj. MT
A: I will clean the house on Sunday.
P: The house will be cleaned by me on Sunday.
3b- “Be + going to + be +Past Participle” = 95% certain/sure
Breakfast Adv.= definitely, absolutely, for sure, most emphatically, etc.
A: I am definitely going to have breakfast after class.
P: Breakfast is definitely going to be eaten by me after class.
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Connectors that give a reason:
Agent = By + people at+ a place, or a place of business
because of + Noun/N. Ph./Gerund
due to
through
as a result of / as a consequence of
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Modifiers: Time = when? / Place = where? / Manner = why?
Modifiers are Movable. If at the beginning, use a comma but not at the
end. Modifiers modify all the sentence.
S V. Ph. C=Obj.= Noun/N. Ph. MT
A: Overpopulation is killing our forests in 1990
P: In 1990, our forests are being killed by overpopulation in 1990.
A: In Ecuador, in 2020, people had needed to be in lockdown.
P:
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Types of Adverbs= Frequency Adverbs/Focus Adv.
Viewpoint Adverb: actually, luckily, fortunately, etc. Use commas.
Actually = In fact, In reality,
Actually, I go out every Friday. The Adv. goes before the Main Verb
I go out every Friday, actually// I actually go out every Friday.
She is actually tired. Be goes after is, are, etc.
Actually I study a major. = WRONG =because it is referring to time.