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Past participle is used in
Past Perfect
Passive Voice
Passive Voice and Perfect Tenses
Reported Speech
You can use Passive Voice to:
speak about who was important in the sentence.
change the focus of your sentence.
change the meaning of the sentence.
write formal and informal speeches.
This is an active sentence:
We must to study.
Study must be by us.
The children eat the cake.
The cake must be eaten by children.
In the passive voice:
The object is more important than the subject.
The action is the most important.
You must pay attention to the complement.
You have to conjugate the main verb.
Why should you use the Passive Voice?
You don´t want to say who or what did the action.
You don´t know who did the action.
The object is the most important part of the sentence.
all of them.
When do people use passive voice?
Journalists can´t say who did something or they don´t know who did it.
Scientific reports or legal documents, the information has to be objective.
A and B are true.
A passive voice sentence
The cake was eaten by the childen.
The children ate the cake.
The cake be eaten by them.
The children were eating the cake.
In the passive voice we use this word at the end of the sentence:
be
Them
to the
by
When you use the word BY in Passive voice, it means
Who or what did the action.
The action is the most important.
The verb must be conjugated.
The complement is the main part of the sentence.
The first step to work Passive voice is:
Move the object to become the new subject of the sentence.
identify the subject, the verb and the object in the active.
Add the past participle of the main verb.
Subject of the action sentence.
What is the second step for working in Passive Voice
Conjugate the verb BE , to the real tense
What is the verb tense in the Active Sentence
Identify the subject, verb and object.
Move the object to become the new subject of the sentence.
What is the third step to identify Passive voice:
Move the object to become the new subject of the sentence.
Subject of the active sentence.
what is the verbal tense in the active sentence.
Add the past participle of the main verb after BE.
What is the fourth step for working passive voice
What is the verbal tense in the active sentence.
Subject of the active sentence.
Add the past participle of the main verb.
Conjugate the verb TO BE to the real tense.
What is the fifth step to work in Passive voice?
Add the past participle of the main verb after TO BE.
identify the subject, verb and object in the active.
Move the object to become the new subject of the sentence.
Subject of the active sentence.
what is the last step to identify passive voice:
What is the verb tense in the active sentence
conjugate the verb to be
identify the subject of the active sentence
Add the past participle of the main verb