Passive

Rememeber! We use the passive when we are more interested in the action than in the people who do the action. We do not know exactly who does the action. It is obvious who did the action.

Structure In an active sentences you have: SUBJECT + VERB + COMPLEMENT JK Rowling wrote Harry Potter. PAST SIMPLE To change an active sentence in a passive sentence we change the order: COMPLEMENT + VERB + (BY + SUBJECT) Harry Potter was written by JKRowling. STRUCTURE You need the verb to be in the tense of the active sentence + the participle of the verb.

BY You cannot say by I or by we. After by you need object pronouns Me, you, him, her, it, us, you, them.

PASSIVE: PRESENT SIMPLE BMW make the new mini. The new mini is made by BMW. Sometimes they find gold in this river. Sometimes gold is found in this river. They don’t grow tea in Britain. Tea isn’t grown in Britain.

Each sentence contains a mistake Each sentence contains a mistake. Find it and rewrite the sentence correctly. The Song Jingle Bells is sang at Christmas in Britain. The city of Florence is visited for hundreds of people every day. Tennis played by two or four players. Many products made in China nowadays. More manga comics are drawing in Japan than in any other country. That book is wrote by a famous novelist. Sometimes spectacular eclipses is seen in this part of the world. More ice creams eaten in the summer than in the winter.

Passive: other tenses. Complete the sentences with the correct passive form of the verbs given. That cartoon__________ (Create) in 1985. Listen! That song_______ (sing) in Japanese. That film _________( see) for the first time in 1919. The pictures _________ ( draw ) in prehistoric times. The criminal __________ (follow) by the Police right now. The first cheap cars _______ (produce) nearly 100 years ago in the USA. Look! The window __________ (break) by the wind.