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Passive Voice - Worked examples and exercises
Worked example
Example 1: Change to passive in different tenses.
Present: "They make chocolate in Belgium." -> Chocolate is made in Belgium.
Past: "Picasso painted Guernica." -> Guernica was painted by Picasso.
Future: "They will build a new school." -> A new school will be built.
Worked example
Example 2: When do we use passive voice?
Answer: When: 1) We don't know who did the action: "My bike was stolen." 2) It is obvious: "Spanish is spoken in 20 countries." 3) The action is more important than the person: "The Mona Lisa was painted in the 16th century."
Worked example
Example 3: Change to passive: "Someone has broken the window."
Answer: The window has been broken. Present Perfect passive: have/has + been + past participle. We don't say "by someone" because we don't know who.
Exercises- Change to passive (Present): "People speak English all over the world."
- Change to passive (Past): "Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone."
- Change to passive (Future): "They will open a new hospital next year."
- Change to passive (Present Perfect): "Someone has eaten my sandwich!"
- Is this active or passive? Explain: "The cake was baked by my mum."
- Correct: "The letter was wrote by the teacher."
- Write 3 passive sentences about your school.
- Write 3 passive sentences about famous inventions.
- When do we omit "by + agent"? Write 3 examples.
- Translate: "Este colegio fue construido en 1990. El español es hablado por 500 millones de personas."
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