Rewrite each sentence in the Passive: They built 3 new schools last year. The gunman was fired/fired one shot at Tiller and was threatened/ threatened two other people who trie[r]
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Match the forms of the Active verbs with their corresponding Passive forms.
Read the following piece of news Cross out the wrong verb forms.
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
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english worksheet School Year 2008-2009
Use and Form – Basic Rules
Remember: We use the Passive voice when what happens is more important than who does it.
J The object of the active sentence becomes the
subject of the passive voice.
J We form the Passive voice with the auxiliary
verb Be (always in the same tense as the verb in the active voice) and the Past Participle of the main verb, followed by a by-phrase, the agent, when we know who or what performed the action.
Children’s day is celebrated on June 1st
Yeah…Lots of trees were
planted yesterday
Verb
Street traders sellblack-market products. Black-market productsare sold by street traders
Agent
Rewrite each sentence in the Passive: They built new schools last year
Thousands of people visit the Azores
Someone stole my purse from my locker
The monkey painted that picture
Millions of teenagers enjoy her books
Write an active sentence and a passive sentence from these prompts.
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 hours after the shooting Outside Tiller’s clinic, flowers were placed/ placed along a fence, and Kansas Coalition for Life was left/ left a sign saying members were prayed/ prayed for his change of heart "not his murder A man yelled
1 The little boy / the wallet/ yesterday/ find
a)
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b) _ _
2. Teachers/ students/ good manners/ teach
a)
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Match the forms of the Active verbs with their corresponding Passive forms.
Read the following piece of news Cross out the wrong verb forms.
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THANK YU!
english worksheet School Year 2008-2009
Use and Form – Basic Rules
Remember: We use the Passive voice when what happens is more important than who does it.
J The object of the active sentence becomes the
subject of the passive voice.
J We form the Passive voice with the auxiliary
verb Be (always in the same tense as the verb in the active voice) and the Past Participle of the main verb, followed by a by-phrase, the agent, when we know who or what performed the action.
Children’s day is celebrated on June 1st
Yeah…Lots of trees were
planted yesterday
Verb
Street traders sellblack-market products. Black-market productsare sold by street traders
Agent
Rewrite each sentence in the Passive: 1. They built new schools last year
Three new schools were built last year 2. Thousands of people visit the Azores The Azores are visited by thousands of people 3. Someone stole my purse from my locker
My purse was stolen from my locker 4. The monkey painted that picture That picture was painted by the monkey
1 I forget (singular, S Past) 2.discover (Plural, S Past) 3. make (singular, S Present) 4 build (Plural, S Present) 5. forget (Plural, S Past) 6. leave (Plural, S Past) 7. produce (Plural, S.Present) 8. leave (singular, S Past) 9. build (singular, S S Past) 10. 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
Write an active sentence and a passive sentence from these prompts.
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
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