Understanding Passive Voice and Causative Verbs: Changing Agents to Receivers, Slides of Grammar and Composition

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Passive

voice and

Causative

verbs

Passive voice

The passive voice change the word order of a sentence in the active voice. In a sentence in the active voice, the subject come before the object. In a sentence with the passive voice, the object become the subject. Example:

1. Koy eats the Pizza. (Active ) (Koy= subject , Pizza= Object)
2. The Pizza was eaten by Koy.(Passive) (the pizza = object, Koy= subject)

Example :

• (^) Five million people watch the show every week. (Active Voice)
• The show is watched by five million people every week. (Passive Voice)

Passive Form :

Be + Past Participle (by + noun) Some basic forms of passive voice: ent or Past Simple: ( am,is,are,was,were)+V nt or Past Progressive: ( am,is,are,was,were)+being+V nt or Past Perfect: ( am,is,are,was,were)+being+V Future Simple: (Will+be+V3) uture Perfect: (Will+have+been+V3)

enses and the passive

Note: “We use passive forms of tenses in the same way as we use their active equivalents. For example, we use the present simple in the passive to talk about general or permanent states, or general facts we think are true at the present time” How to write Passive Voice

1. Read the whole sentence.
2. Find the subject and the object in the active voice.
3. Take the object in active voice and change it to be a subject in passive voice.
4. Change the Verb (To Be = am, is, are, was, were, been) according to the verb in Active.