1. Lorena Guerrero Alexandra Bolaños
PRESENT PASSIVE
Lorena Guerrero
Alexandra Bolaños

2. 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

3. 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)

4. 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

5. 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"

6. 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. 

7. 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. 

8. 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?

9. 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.

10. 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