english fundamental part 2 passive voice

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DLS Language Series

FundamentalsOf English Grammar Part 2

The Passive Voice

By DjRay

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Langkawi

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Fundamentals of English (Part2, pg1)Passive Voice

1.1 Basic Structure of a passive sentence :

When we speak or write, each sentence should be based on the following structure

Eg : It is found in Langkawi

SUBJECT must always match with the VERB (ie Singular Subject with Singular Verb or Plural Subject withPlural Verb)

VERB must always match with Time, which determines PRESENT, PAST orFUTURE Actions

1.2 What is SUBJECT ?

Subject is either a Noun or Pronoun Subject Noun - Singular Alex, My brother, Mr John Subject Pronoun - SingularHe, She, It Subject Pronoun - Plural They, You, We, I

Subject Perfect Verb ObjectMatching

verb
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Fundamentals of English (Part2, pg2)Passive Voice

1.3 What is Object ?

Object consists of nouns, object pronouns (eg him), verb infinitives (eg to see), adjectives (egsmall), adverbs (eg quickly), time (eg yesterday) etc.. It is not always important to determineSingular or Plural noun in Object area, except for sentences using There is, There are etc..

1.4 What is Perfect VERB ? There are 3 types of Verbs in English, ie Simple Verbs, Continuous Verb and Perfect Verb

Study the 3 verbs below Note: Be sure to differentiate between Simple Past Verbs and Perfect Verbs. (Some of them

have the same spelling, but only perfect verbs are used in Passive Voice

Plural Singular Past

take takes tookeat eats atewrite writes wrotebreak breaks brokebuy buys boughtopen opens opened

takingeatingwritingbreakingbuyingopening

takeneatenwrittenbrokenboughtopened

Continuous Verb Simple Verb Perfect Verb
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Construct a SentencePresent Actions Passive Voice

Subject amisare

being Perfect Verb Object It is being written

Subjectamisare

Perfect Verb Object It is written

Plural Singular Pastwrite writes wrotebreak breaks brokebuy buys boughtopen opens opened

writingbreakingbuyingopening

writtenbrokenboughtopened

Continuous Verb Simple Verb Perfect Verb
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Construct a QuestionPresent Actions Passive Voice

Subjectamisare

being Perfect Verb Object Is it being written?

Subjectamisare

Perfect Verb Object Is it written?W

W

W = What, Where, Why, Who, When, How, How many, which, whose etc..
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Construct a SentencePast Actions Passive Voice

Subject being Perfect Verb Object It was being written

Subjectwaswere

Perfect Verb Object It was written

waswere

Subjecthas

have

been Perfect Verb Object It has been written
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Construct a QuestionPast Actions Passive Voice

Subject being Perfect Verb Object Was it being written?

Subjectwaswere

Perfect Verb Object Was it written?

waswere

Subjecthas

have

been Perfect Verb Object Has it been written?

W

W

W

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Construct a SentenceFuture Actions Passive Voice

going

to be

*Futureverb

Perfect Verb ObjectIt is going to be

written

amisare

Subject be

Subject

Perfect Verb Object It will be written

*Future Verb = will, can, must, may, might, should, could, etc
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Construct a SentenceFuture Actions Passive Voice

going

to be

*Futureverb

Perfect Verb ObjectIs it going to bewritten?

amisare

Subject be

Subject

Perfect Verb Object Will it be written?

*Future Verb = will, can, must, may, might, should, could, etc

W

W

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The Passive Voice

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