THE PASSIVE VOICE

The passive voice is used when the most important in the sentences is the action and not the subject or person.

TO BE + PAST PARTICIPLE + BY + SUBJECT

Examples: Mary writes very interesting books

( Active Voice)Very interesting books are written by

Mary (Passive Voice)

The famous singer sings rock songs in the concert.

Rock songs are sung by the famous singer in the concert.

My parents sell last model cars in the main avenue.

Last model cars are sold by my parents in the main avenue.

More examples.

* The baby sees funny cartoons in the TV

* My best friend cleans his bedroom every

Saturday.

• Students do interesting homework at school

• My mom cooks delicious peruvian food on

weekends.

• The architects build a modern building in the

avenue.

• The girl reads romantic stories in her free

time.

Past Passive Voice TO BE IN PAST + PAST PARTICIPLE VERB + BY+

SUBJECT Examples:• Shakespeare wrote Hamlet ( active voice )• Hamlet was written by Shakespeare ( passive

voice)

• My father drew great pictures in the exhibition

• Great pictures were drawn by my father in the exhibition.

More examples

The secretary saw some cultural videos in the

office.The player got three goals in the last match.

My grandparents sent me a different present

for my birthday.Hiran Brigham discovered MachuPicchu in 1911

The thieves stole some houses in the middle of

the night.The police made a new report in the main

square.

PRACTICE1.The students created a very interesting essay about the nature.2. The secretary types different school documents in the morning.3. Hiran Brigham discovered the Machu Picchu Ruins in 1911.4. The child drink all the milk bottle in the morning.5.Some sportmen jumped the London Bridge in the dawn.6. Mario Vargas Llosa produced very controversial books in all his life.

7. A well known singer sign thousand of autographs in the Aventura Plaza Mall.

8. The teacher teaches the Passive Voice Lesson to the english students in the third floor of the school.

9. The artist draws a very colorful sigtseeing picture in the middle of the main square.

10. Gaston Acurio represents our peruvian gastronomy , and in the best way for all over the world.

11. The England Collonies conquested North America in the 18th. Century.

12.The Huascar Ship confronted to the Esmerald Ship in the Iquique Combat in 1879.

13. Two hundred thousand people died in the Indonesia Tsunami in 2004.

15. Nostradamus did many phofecies about the Judish Global Holocauste.

16. Salvador Dali painted the most famous impresionist pictures in the world.

PRACTICE1. The mechanics bought three new

cars in Lima2. Children broke the house windows

playing in front of the park.3.The champions win the swimming

competition in USA4. The secretary wrote important

documents in the office all the day.5.The teacher taught the math

lessons in the academy.

6.The singer sings romantic songs in the concert.

7. The delincuents stole the National Bank two months ago.

8. A baby throws a little toy to the street.

9. The tourists spoke French in the restaurant all the morning.

10.Students saw cartoons in their friends house yesterday.

11.My mother took a taxi because it was raining.

12.My father drives a very big truck in his work.

13. The police found a band of delincuents in the downtown of the city.

14.Some students give the english exams at University.

15. My friend did the Physiscs homework in two hours

16. The artists drew many strange pictures in the park.

17. My sister prepares very delicious desserts for our father’s birthday every december.

18.The players play a very interesting football match in the school last Monday.

19. My brother finished the school history work in two minutes.

20. My sister cleans her bedroom and she finds many interesting objects under her bed.

THE STORY OF JEANS ( PAST PASSIVE)

Jeans (wear)………………………………………by people all over the world. Millions of pairs of jeans(buy)……………………………………..everyday.

Jeans (make)…………………………………..from cotton. The cotton(pick)……………………………………and (make)………………………………..into a

cloth called denim. The denim (color)……………………………………….blue. The denim(make)

……………………………Into jeans by women workers who are usually badly (pay)…………………………. Then the jeans(take)

………………………………………………..to stores where they (sell)…………………………………..for twice the cost of making them. The

word “jeans” comes from Italy. Over three hundred years ago the people of Genoa wore cotton clothes and the cloth (know)

…………………………………………..as “jeans” after the name of the town.

The first jeans (make)…………………………………………in the USA as early as 1638.A man called Levi Strauss went to California from

New York in 1853 and in 1872 the first Levi jeans (make)……………………………………… The famous Levi label(use)

……………………………………………….first in 1886, and the first Levi 501s (sell)………………………..in 1890. This great jeans (buy)…………………………………………for millions all over the world.

HomeworkThink about some inventions , literature

books , music ,programs,etc and write twenty sentences in active voice and change them to the passive voice.

In all the tenses.(40 in total)