Passive Voice 1

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<b>Match the forms of the Active verbs with </b>
<b> their corresponding Passive forms.</b>

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<b>Read the following piece of news. </b>
<b> Cross out the wrong verb forms.</b>

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I forget (singular, S. Past)
discover (Plural, S. Past)
make (singular, S. Present)
build (Plural, S. Present)
forget (Plural, S. Past)
leave (Plural, S. Past)
produce (Plural, S.Present)
leave (singular, S. Past)
build (singular, S. S. Past)
send (singular, S. Present)

were forgotten
were left
was forgotten

was left
are built
is sent

were discovered
was built

is made

are produced

C

english worksheet

<b>School Year 2008-2009</b>

Use and Form –

<b>Basic Rules</b>

<b>Remember: </b><b> We use</b> <b>the Passive voice</b> <b>when</b> <b>what happens is</b>
<b>more important than who does it.</b>

J <b>The object of the active sentence becomes the</b>

<b>subject of the passive voice.</b>

J <b>We form the Passive voice with the auxiliary</b>

<b>verb Be (always in the same tense as the verb</b>
<b>in the active voice) and the Past Participle of</b>
<b>the main verb, followed by a by-phrase, the</b>
<b>agent, when we know who or what performed</b>

<b>the action.</b>

Children’s day
<b>is celebrated</b>
on June 1st_.

Yeah…Lots of
trees were

<b>planted</b>
yesterday.

<b> </b>

<b> Verb</b>

<b> </b>

<b> Street traders sellblack-market products.</b>
<b>Black-market products</b>are sold by street
<b>traders</b>.

<b> </b> <b> </b> <b> Agent</b>

<b> Rewrite each sentence in the Passive:</b>
They built 3 new schools last year.

________________________________
Thousands of people visit the Azores.

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Someone stole my purse from my locker.

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The monkey painted that picture.

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Millions of teenagers enjoy her books.

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<b> Write an active sentence and a passive </b>
<b> sentence from these prompts.</b>

Doctor George Tiller, 67, was at the morning
services this Sunday when he was shot/ shot,
police said. The gunman was fired/fired one shot
at Tiller and was threatened/ threatened two
other people who tried to stop him. The suspect
was taken/ took into custody in a Kansas City
suburb 3 hours after the shooting. Outside Tiller’s
clinic, flowers were placed/ placed along a fence,
and <i>Kansas Coalition for Life</i> was left/ left a sign
saying members were prayed/ prayed for his
change of heart "not his murder. A man yelled

<b>1</b>. The little boy / the wallet/ yesterday/ find.

<b>a) </b>

_________________________________

<b>b)</b>_________________________________
_

<b>2.</b> Teachers/ students/ good manners/
teach.

<b>a) </b>

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<b> </b>

<b>Match the forms of the Active verbs with </b>
<b> their corresponding Passive forms.</b>

<b> </b>

<b>Read the following piece of news. </b>
<b> Cross out the wrong verb forms.</b>

<b> </b>

C

g

i

e

a

b

j

d

h

f

THANK Y

_

U

!

english worksheet

<b>School Year 2008-2009</b>

Use and Form –

<b>Basic Rules</b>

<b>Remember: </b>_<b> We use</b> <b>the Passive voice</b> <b>when</b> <b>what happens is</b>
<b>more important than who does it.</b>

J <b>The object of the active sentence becomes the</b>

<b>subject of the passive voice.</b>

J <b>We form the Passive voice with the auxiliary</b>

<b>verb Be (always in the same tense as the verb</b>
<b>in the active voice) and the Past Participle of</b>
<b>the main verb, followed by a by-phrase, the</b>
<b>agent, when we know who or what performed</b>
<b>the action.</b>

Children’s day

<b>is celebrated</b>
on June 1st_.

Yeah…Lots of
trees were

<b>planted</b>
yesterday.

<b> </b>

<b> Verb</b>

<b> </b>

<b> Street traders sellblack-market products.</b>
<b>Black-market products</b>are sold by street
<b>traders</b>.

<b> </b> <b> </b> <b> Agent</b>

<b> Rewrite each sentence in the Passive:</b>
<b>1.</b> They built 3 new schools last year.

Three new schools were built last year.
<b>2.</b> Thousands of people visit the Azores.
The Azores are visited by thousands of people.
<b>3.</b> Someone stole my purse from my
locker.

My purse was stolen from my locker.
<b>4.</b> The monkey painted that picture.
That picture was painted by the
monkey.

<b>1</b>. I forget (singular, S. Past)
<b>2</b>.discover (Plural, S. Past)
<b>3.</b> make (singular, S. Present)
<b>4. </b>build (Plural, S. Present)
<b>5.</b> forget (Plural, S. Past)
<b>6.</b> leave (Plural, S. Past)
<b>7.</b> produce (Plural, S.Present)
<b>8.</b> leave (singular, S. Past)
<b>9.</b> build (singular, S. S. Past)
<b>10.</b> send (singular, S. Present)

a) were forgotten

b) were left

c) was forgotten

d) was left
e) are built
f) is sent

g) were discovered

h) was built

i) is made

j) are produced

<b> Write an active sentence and a passive </b>
<b> sentence from these prompts.</b>

Doctor George Tiller, 67, was at the morning

services this Sunday when he <b>was shot/ shot</b>,

police said. The gunman <b>was fired /fired</b> one
shot at Tiller and <b>was threatened / threatened</b>

two other people who tried to stop him. The
suspect <b>was taken/ took</b> into custody in a

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