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Mind Map by Estefanía Márquez, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Estefanía Márquez
over 9 years ago
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Passive Voice
- Focus on the action
- "The bike was stolen"
- "The bike was stolen"
- Diference between Active Voice
- Can be more polite
- "A mistake was made"
- "A mistake was made"
- Can be more polite
- Structure
- Subject + Finite form of to be + Past participle
- A letter + was + written
- A letter + was + written
- Subject + Finite form of to be + Past participle
- Main Idea
- Don't need/have/necessary to know
- Where
- When
- Who
- Where
- Don't need/have/necessary to know
- Rewriting active sentences
- Object = Subject
- Finite form of verb = to be + past participle
- Subject = Object/ Can be dropped
- Object = Subject
- Examples
- Simple present
- Passive: "A letter is written by Rita"
- Active: "Rite writes a letter"
- Passive: "A letter is written by Rita"
- Simple past
- Active: "Rita wrote a letter"
- Passive: "A letter was written by Rita"
- Active: "Rita wrote a letter"
- Present Perfect
- Active: "Rita has written a letter"
- Passive: "A letter has been written by Rita"
- Active: "Rita has written a letter"
- Future 1
- Active: "Rita will write a letter"
- Passive: "A letter will be written by Rita"
- Active: "Rita will write a letter"
- Present Progressive
- Active: "Rita is writing a letter"
- Passive: "A letter is being written by Rita"
- Active: "Rita is writing a letter"
- Past Progressive
- Active: "Rita was writing a letter"
- Passive: "A letter was being writen by Rita"
- Active: "Rita was writing a letter"
- Past Perect
- Active: "Rita had written a letter"
- Passive: "A letter had being written by Rita"
- Active: "Rita had written a letter"
- Future 2
- Active: "Rita will have written a letter"
- Passive: "A letter will have being written by Rita"
- Active: "Rita will have written a letter"
- Conditional 1
- Active: "Rita would write a letter"
- Passive: "A letter would being written by Rita"
- Active: "Rita would write a letter"
- Conditional 2
- Active: "Rita would have written a letter"
- Passive: "A letter would have being written by Rita"
- Active: "Rita would have written a letter"
- Simple present
- 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"
- Active: "Rita wrote (1) a letter
(2) to me"
- The change depends on which
action do you want to focus on
- One of the two object
becomes the subject
- 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.
- 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
- Say
- He says. - It is said.
- Every verb that needs an object
can form a personal passive
- The object of the active becomes
the subject of the passive
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