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English Grammar

1. Passive Voice
How to Use
Exercises

2. Passive Voice
•form: be + past participle
•it‘s used whenthe verbindicateswhathappensto
‘things’ or ‘people’ and not whatthe ‘things’ or
‘people’ do
The streets arecleanedeveryday.
This document iswrittenin English.
Housesarebuiltin stone or in wood.

3. Passive Voice
•statement
Some peopleareinvitedto the party.
•negative
Some people are not (aren’t) invited.
•question
Aresome peopleinvited?

4. Passive Voice
•when rewriting active sentencesin passive, the
objectof the activesentence becomes the
subjectof the passive
A: Somebody cleansthis room every day.
OBJECT
P: This room iscleanedevery day.
SUBJECT

5. Passive Voice
•the verb BEhas to be in the same tense as in
the active sentence
A: Mygrandfatherbuiltthishousein 1902.
P: This house wasbuiltin 1902.
•Sometimeswedo needto show who did the
actionsowe use BY
This house was built bymy grandfather.

6. Passive Voice
•if you are not sure how to form a passive
sentence, think of the active sentence first
A: Someone stolemybike yesterday.
P: My bike wasstolenyesterday.

7. Passive Voice –present simple
•form: am/is/are(not)+ past participle
Thisroomisalways locked.
Many accidents arecausedby dangerous
driving.
Weareneverinvitedto parties.
If passwordsaren’tregularlyupdated, thereis
a riskof hacking.

8. Passive Voice –past simple
•form: was/were (not)+ past participle
This room wascleanedlast night.
We werewoken up bya loud explosion.
When was the housebuilt?
You weren’tcontactedfor the job.

9. Write sentences from the words in
brackets using passive voice–present
•1. (the office/clean/every night)
•2. (these rooms/clean/every day?)
•3. (glass/make/from sand)
•4. (stamps/sell/in a post office)
•5. (this room/not/use)
•6. (we/allow/to park here?)
•7. (how/this word/pronounce?)

10. Write sentences from the words in
brackets using thepassive voice–past
1. (the house/paint/last month)
2. (three people/injure/in the accident)
3. (my bicycle/steal/a few days ago)
4. (when/this bridge/build?)
5. (you/invite/to the party/last week?)
6. (how/these windows/break?)