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The Passive

1. THE PASSIVE

2. The subject is affected by the action. The subject carries out the action. The passive Use The passive is used when we want to focus on the action rather than on the person who did it. Active sentence Passive sentence Social networking reunited old friends. Old friends were reunited by social networking.

3. The passive Form The object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive. The subject of the active becomes the agent of the passive and is preceded by the preposition by . The auxiliary verb to be is used in the same tense as the main verb of the active sentence and we add the past participle of the main verb . When we change an active sentence into a passive one: Social networking reunited old friends . Old friends were reunited by social networking .

4. The passive Form of the personal pronouns Active (subject) Passive (object) I me you you he/ she him/ her we us you you they them

5. The passive Form of the verb tenses Active: Technology changes the world. Present simple Passive: The world is changed by technology. Active: Technology changed the world. Past simple Passive: The world was changed by technology. Active: Technology has changed the world. Present perfect Passive: The world has been changed by technology.

6. The passive Form of the verb tenses Active: Technology had changed the world. Past perfect Passive: The world had been changed by technology. Active: Technology is changing the world. Present continuous Passive: The world is being changed by technology. Active: Technology was changing the world. Past continuous Passive: The world was being changed by technology.

7. The passive Form of the verb tenses Active: Technology will change the world. Future simple Passive: The world will be changed by technology. Active: Technology can change the world. With modal verb can Passive: The world can be changed by technology. Active: Technology must change the world. With modal verb must Passive: The world must be changed by technology.

8. The passive Double object passive My brother gave me a notebook for my birthday. When we have two different objects in the sentence, we can turn it into two different passive sentences: One sentence starting with the direct object ( a notebook ) A notebook was given to me for my birthday by my brother . The other starting with the indirect object ( me ) I was given a notebook for my birthday by my brother . Active Passive Passive

9. Make the corresponding passive sentence . Joan’s boss gave her a new smartphone yesterday. Joan ________________________________________________. He calls his girlfriend every day. His girlfriend __________________________________________. We have seen the new tablet’s advertisement. The new tablet’s advertisement ____________________________. She had written an article about hackers. An article about hackers _________________________________. was given a new smartphone by her boss yesterday is called by him every day has been seen by us had been written by her

10. Rewrite in the passive . New technologies are saving energy. _____________________________________________________. I will send an email showing our disfavour. _____________________________________________________. They must decline strangers’ friendship requests. _____________________________________________________. He broke his parents’ monitor a few days ago. _____________________________________________________. Energy is being saved by new technologies. An email showing our disfavour will be sent by me Strangers’ friendship requests must be declined by them His parents’ monitor was broken by him a few days ago