PASSIVE VOICE

The passive voice is used when we want to

emphasize the action (the verb) and the
object of a sentence rather than subject. This
means that the subject is either less important
than the action.
ACTIVE :

Mary helps Dinda every morning

Subject Object

PASSIVE :

Dinda is helped by Mary every morning

Subject Object
 Object
ACTIVE :

Someone killed twenty civilians in the bomb explosion

Subject

PASSIVE :
Twenty civilians were killed in the bomb explosion (by someone)

Subject
Object
In passive, the object of an active verb
becomes the subject of the passive verb
Passive Verbs in Tenses
TENSES ACTIVE PASSIVE
SIMPLE PRESENT VERB 1 (s/es) Is/am/are+ V3
TENSE

Dita visits Uncle Uncle Roni is visited

Roni every weeks. by Dita every weeks

……………….
My father fixes the
car
SIMPLE PAST VERB 2 Was/were + V3
TENSE
Dita visited Uncle …………………………….
Roni .

My father fixed the

car yesterday …………………………….
.
 Change those active sentences to become
passive sentences
• I eat rice and green beans
• He rides a bike
• Somebody left the gate open
• They access the intranet
• He wrote many books
• She returned all the products
• She brings little money
• We need extra pillows
• They interrupted the presentation
• Did you touch his things?
• He plays the game
• Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radium and
polonium
• The convenience store sold fresh meat
• My father reads a daily newspaper
• Do the workers operate those tower cranes?
• The tower crane operators wear a hard hat
• The customer service officers answer my questions
• She revealed the secret of her success
• The police caught the thieves
• The woman hit his parked car