PASSIVE VOICE –

SIMPLE PRESENT

Mg. Jhonatan Franz Jaimes Rojas

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When do we use the passive

voice?
1. When we want to give more
importance to the object than the
subject.

2. When the subject is not important or

we dont´t know it.
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What is active voice?
Active sentence 1:
 The boy watches the stars.
subject verb object

Active sentence 2:
 My mom watersthe flowers.
subject verb object

Key: in an active voice sentence, a subject does an

action that affects an object.
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Summarising:
A: The boy watches the stars.

P:The stars are watched by him.

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Summarising:
A: Mario Vargas writes ¨El sueño del
Llosa Celta.¨

P: ¨El sueño by Mario

del Celta.¨ is written Vargas Losa.
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Tense of the verbs

 Pay attention to the tense of the originalverb:
A: The class study English.

P: English is studied by them.

present
The tense of the verb to be (am-is-are) is the tense of the main
verb in the active sentence.
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