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Passive Voice Grammar
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Mind Map on Passive Voice Grammar, created by Estefanía Márquez on 04/03/2015.
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Passive Voice
Focus on the action
"The bike was stolen"
Diference between Active Voice
Can be more polite
"A mistake was made"
Structure
Subject + Finite form of to be + Past participle
A letter + was + written
Main Idea
Don't need/have/necessary to know
Where
When
Who
Rewriting active sentences
Object = Subject
Finite form of verb = to be + past participle
Subject = Object/ Can be dropped
Examples
Simple present
Passive: "A letter is written by Rita"
Active: "Rite writes a letter"
Simple past
Active: "Rita wrote a letter"
Passive: "A letter was written by Rita"
Present Perfect
Active: "Rita has written a letter"
Passive: "A letter has been written by Rita"
Future 1
Active: "Rita will write a letter"
Passive: "A letter will be written by Rita"
Present Progressive
Active: "Rita is writing a letter"
Passive: "A letter is being written by Rita"
Past Progressive
Active: "Rita was writing a letter"
Passive: "A letter was being writen by Rita"
Past Perect
Active: "Rita had written a letter"
Passive: "A letter had being written by Rita"
Future 2
Active: "Rita will have written a letter"
Passive: "A letter will have being written by Rita"
Conditional 1
Active: "Rita would write a letter"
Passive: "A letter would being written by Rita"
Conditional 2
Active: "Rita would have written a letter"
Passive: "A letter would have being written by Rita"
Sentences with two objects
One of the two object becomes the subject
The change depends on which action do you want to focus on
Active: "Rita wrote (1) a letter (2) to me"
Passive: "A letter was written (1) to me (2) by Rita"
Passive: "I was written (1) a letter (2) by Rita"
Personal and Impersonal
The object of the active becomes the subject of the passive
Every verb that needs an object can form a personal passive
They build houses. - Houses are built.
The verbs without an object are called intransitive, and only can form impersonal passive
He says. - It is said.
Only possible with verbs of perception
Say
Think
Know
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