Passive or Active?
Active or passive?
The books were changed by Sue.
Change to active voice:
The books have been read by the librarian.
What is
The librarian has read the books.
Change to passive voice:
The dog stole the food yesterday.
The food WAS STOLEN yesterday BY the dog
Create a sentence in PRESENT passive voice using the following words:
Tom, the house, paint
What is
The house is painted by Tom.
Active or passive voice?
Mom reads the novel in one day.
active voice?
Change to active voice:
Many items will be sold by the students at the garage sale.
The Grade students WILL SELL many items at the garage sale.
Change to passive voice:
Everyone at the school knows Mr. Valdez.
What is
Mr. Valdez is known by everyone at the school.
Create a sentence in passive voice using the following words:
me, room, clean, every Saturday
My room is cleaned (by me) every Saturday.
My room is cleaned every Saturday (by me)
Is this sentence in Active or passive voice?
The teacher always answers the students’ questions.
active voice
Change to active voice:
Buenos Aires is visited every year by thousands of tourists.
What is
Thousands of tourists visit Buenos Aires every year.
Change to passive voice:
The scientists have invented a new vaccine.
A new vaccine HAS BEEN INVENTED by the scientists.
Create a sentence in passive voice using the following words:
-Use the PAST SIMPLE
the wedding planner, make, reservations
Reservations were made by the wedding planner.
Active or passive voice?
The Grand Canyon is visited by thousands of tourists every year.
passive voice
Change to active voice:
The injured patient was helped in only 5 minutes.
The doctor/nurse/surgeon helped the patient in only 5 minutes.
*here we have to ADD THE SUBJECT, because it is not given in the passive sentence. (We imagine that the person who helped the patient is a doctor/nurse or surgeon)
Change to passive voice:
I sing the intro song to Aladdin.
The intro song to Aladdin is sung by me.
Create a sentence in passive voice using the following words:
-Use PAST PERFECT
Larry, donate, money, to the homeless shelter
Money was donated by Larry to the homeless shelter.
Active or passive voice?
The deal will be signed by the two presidents.
passive voice
Change to active voice:
Before they found him, deven people had been killed by this killer.
Before they found him, this killer had killed seven people.
Change to passive voice:
Previous to those holidays, my brother had explored many places.
Previous to those holidays, many places HAD BEEN EXPLORED by my brother.
Create a sentence in passive voice using the following words:
-Use FUTURE SIMPLE
the director, to you, give, instructions
You will be given instructions by the director.