Lorena Guerrero Alexandra Bolaños PRESENT PASSIVE Lorena Guerrero Alexandra Bolaños

The film is made in Japan PRESENT PASSIVE USES The passive voice is used to describe what happens to the subject of the sentence. Passive sentences is more important the subject performs the action. Ex: The film is made in Japan

PASSIVE VOICE STRUCTURE In passive sentences we distinguish four parts: Suject patient + To Be + Verb Past Participle + Agent Complement Argentinians speak Spanish Active (Object) Spanish is spoken by Argentinians Passive (Subject)

PRESENT PASSIVE SENTENCES Argentinians speak Spanish Active (Object) STEPS The object of an active sentence becomes the subject of passive We look at the tense of the verb in the active sentence

PRESENT PASSIVE SENTENCES Argentinians speak Spanish Active (Object) STEPS 3. The verb of the active sentence is placed on past participle 4. In passive to the person performing the action he is not always mentioned. If we want to indicate who performed the action, the subject of the active sentence becomes a complement agent and it is introduced by the preposition "by"

AFIRMATIVE A book is written by John Affirmative present the passive voice is formed with Subject + Be+ Verb Past participle A book is written by John T-shirts are made of cotton by them. The speech is written by the president. 

NEGATIVE A book isn´t written by John Negative present the passive voice is formed with Subject + Be (negative)+ Verb Past participle A book isn´t written by John T-shirts aren´t made of cotton by them. The speech isn´t written by the president. 

INTERROGATIVE Is a book written by John? Are T-shirts made of cotton ? Interrogative present the passive voice is formed with Be +Subject + Verb Past participle Is a book written by John? Are T-shirts made of cotton ? Is the speech written by the president?

EXERCICES Active : The gardener waters the flowers every evening. Passive: The flowers are watered by the gardener every evening. Active : Helen doesn't drink anything in parties. Passive: Nothing is drunk by Helen in parties. Active : My mother doesn't paint the walls. Passive: The walls aren't painted by my mother.

TEST ACTIVE PASIVE They use the yen in Japan.   They speak both Spanish and Portuguese in Latin America. They grow a lot of coffee in Brazil She cleanes the house. My mom cooks cookies delicious