Passive Voice

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Passive Voice

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Passive Voice
Why use the Passive?
To emphasize the object or party receiving the action
◦ Rebecca was selected for a free gift.
To emphasize the action instead of the actor
◦ Our car was repaired by our neighbor.
When the agent (doer) is unknown
◦ Her house was broken into last night.
When the agent (doer) is unimportant
◦ Gas prices were raised again last week.
To be discreet or tactful by not naming the agent
◦ The keys were misplaced again!

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Passive Voice
Structure
There are two main rules to all Passive Voice forms
1. Add the verb “Be” in the same tense as the sentence in its
active voice form
2. Use the Past Participle form of the main verb
To be +V3

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Passive Voice
Simple Present
ACTIVE
PASSIVE
I walk the dogs everyday. The dogs are walked
everyday.
The Super Bowl is watched
Millions of people watch
by millions of people.
the Super Bowl.
People write many
Many letters are written to
letters to the President. the President.

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Passive Voice
Simple Past
ACTIVE
PASSIVE
I walked the dogs.
The dogs were walked.
The Super Bowl was
Millions of people
watched the Super Bowl. watched by millions of
people.
People wrote many
letters to the President. Many letters were written
to the President.

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ACTIVE
PASSIVE
I will walk the dogs.
The dogs will be walked.
Millions of people will watch the
Super Bowl.
The Super Bowl will be watched by
millions of people.
People will write many letters to
the President.
Many letters will be written to the
President.

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Remember
If we want to say who does the action, we use by :
This house was built by my grandfather.
Two hundred people are employed by the company.
If somebody does the action with the help of instruments, we use with :
Meat should be cut with a knife.
Food in Japan is eaten with chopsticks.

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Ready to put it
into practice?

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Use Passive Voice to complete
the sentences
1.Tom always (to ask) at the lessons.
2.I (to ask) at the last lesson.
3.Our country house (to finish) next year.
4.The dog (to find) by my sister yesterday.
5. This work (to do) tomorrow.
6.This text (to translate) at the last lesson.
7.These trees (to plant) every autumn.
8.Many interesting games always (to play) at our P.E. lessons.
9.This bone (to give) to my dog tomorrow.
10.We (to invite) to a concert last Saturday.

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Use Active or Passive Voice
1. The house ____________(to build) in 2025.
2.The boy _________ (not to hear) the news yet.
3.The Brooks ___________(to become) famous last year.
4.Money _____________(to keep) in the bank.
5.The parcel __________(to send) yesterday.
6.I would like ________________(to know) English very well.
7.Where _________the road _______(to lead) to?
8.Look! The leaves _______________(to fall).
9.All the money ___________(to spend) on clothes last week.
10.Where is the pie? Who _________(to eat) it?

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Translate into English
1. Детей наказывают…. — Детей наказали… — Детей
накажут…. (punish)
2.Хлеб едят… — Хлеб съели… — Хлеб съедят…
3.Розы выращивают… — Розы вырастили… — Розы
вырастят… (grow)
4.Картину рисуют… — Картину нарисовали… — Картину
нарисуют… (paint)
5.Обо мне говорят. — Обо мне говорили. — Обо мне будут
говорить. (talk about)
6.О нас забывают — О нас забыли…. — О нас забудут…
(forget)

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Choose the right preposition

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Translate into English
1.
Мои часы украли вчера.
2.
Посмотри! Новый кинотеатр построили!
3.
Когда Павел вошел в комнату, обсуждали его проект.
4.
Все упражнения сделаны. Мы можем идти в кино.
5.
Когда с ним поговорят?
6.
Когда папа приехал, вещи были упакованы.
7.
Где статья? Ее переведут через час.
8.
Джона Леннона знают не только в Англии.
9.
Мне разрешили пойти в кино.

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Match the two parts of these
sentences
Find their Russian equivalents:
a) Браки совершаются на небесах.
b) Недоученный хуже неученого.
c) Не так страшен черт, как его малюют.
d) После драки кулаками не машут.
e) Что легко наживается, легко и
проживается.

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Recent News
REWRITE THE NEWS STORY USING THE PASSIVE
VOICE OR ACTIVE VOICE WHERE APPROPRIATE

16.

Apple Fights Back Against
Virus
Think your Apple computer is immune? Think different.
A nasty malware called Flashback infected approximately 600,000
Macintosh computers worldwide. It used a Java security flaw. Apple is
hard at work on a fix, the company said Tuesday.
The company said that Apple will develop software that will detect and
remove the Flashback malware.

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Apple Fights Back Against Virus
Think your Apple computer is immune? Think
different.
Approximately 600,000 Macintosh computers
worldwide was infected by a nasty malware
called Flashback. A Java security flaw was used
by the virus. Apple is hard at work on a fix, the
company said Tuesday.
Software that will detect and remove the
Flashback malware will be developed by Apple.

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Tornado Rips Through Oklahoma –
Kills 5 people
A tornado ripped through a northwestern Oklahoma town Saturday. The
tornado killed at least 5 people. The tornado killed a man and his two
daughters: ages 5 & 7. The tornado destroyed the trailer park where
they lived.
The other victims were another man and his 10 year-old daughter who
lived in a town about 2 miles away. And a helicopter flew another man to
a nearby hospital in Texas.

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Tornado Rips Through Oklahoma –
Kills 5 people
A tornado ripped through a northwestern Oklahoma town Saturday. At
least 5 people were killed. A man and his two daughters: ages 5 & 7
were killed. The trailer park where they lived was destroyed.
The other victims were another man and his 10 year-old daughter who
lived in a town about 2 miles away. And another man was flown by
helicopter to a nearby hospital in Texas.

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Thank you!