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Present Passive ОУ “Христо Ботев” с.Садина, общ.Попово The passive voice The Passive is not a tense. You will find it easier to understand the passive if you already know the basic English verb tenses. Present Passive Here is an active verb in the present simple: Everybody likes the film “The Lion King”. Subject Object Now let’s change the sentence to the passive. ▪ When we make an active sentence passive, the object becomes subject. The film “The Lion King” is liked Subject by everybody. Object We make an active sentence passive when we want to put information at the beginning of the sentence because it is more important. active sentence: Tourists spend a lot of money in London. Tourists is important. passive sentence: A lot of money is spent in London by tourists. A lot of money is important. ОУ “Христо Ботев” с.Садина, общ.Попово Active sentence Everybody likes the film “The Lion King”. Passive sentence The film “The Lion King” is liked by everybody. To make the passive use the verb …and the 3rd form or ‘toliked BE’ in the tense as the past participle of theto mention If you need ‘is ’ issame present simple passive original sentence – here it is the main verb. who is doing the action, present simple tense ‘is’ is in the present use ‘by’simple). to introduce it. (because ОУ “Христо Ботев” с.Садина, общ.Попово Take a look at some more sentences in the present simple passive. English teachers are loved by everybody. The verb ‘to be’ is plural in this sentence to agree with ‘teachers’. English teachers are loved by everybody. You don’t have to agree with that statement! You’re thinking ‘Some people don’t love English teachers!’ So let’s make that passive! English teachers are not loved by everybody. Make the verb ‘to BE’ negative in the usual way. ‘by …’ may not be necessary. If it’s not important, leave it out. ОУ “Христо Ботев” с.Садина, общ.Попово Can you remember the past participles of these verbs? Fill in the blank. read found find Check made eaten Check eat sung Check Check sing cut cut Check make taught teach Check read seen Check see Check ОУ “Христо Ботев” с.Садина, общ.Попово Do you need to practice this again? Fill in the blank is produced A lot of coffee in Brazil. (produce) Check are called A lot of dogs in England Ben. (call) Check ОУ “Христо Ботев” с.Садина, общ.Попово Fill in the blank are used in The Lion King. A million drawings (use) Check is found Simba by his friend, Nala. (find) Check ОУ “Христо Ботев” с.Садина, общ.Попово Complete each sentence in the passive. People eat millions of bars of chocolate every day! Millions of bars of chocolate every day! are eaten Check We plant hundreds of trees every year. Hundreds of trees every year. are planted Check Complete each sentence in the passive. Nowadays people cut down many trees for no reason. Nowadays many trees for no reason. are cut down Check A Portuguese person teaches my sister. My sister by a Portuguese person. is taught Check ОУ “Христо Ботев” с.Садина, общ.Попово Complete each sentence in the passive. People read millions of newspapers every day. Millions of newspapers every day. are read Check Smith and Co publish Tom’s new book. Tom’s new book by Smith and Co. is published Check ОУ “Христо Ботев” с.Садина, общ.Попово Created by : Iskra Gancheva Petkova English teacher at Hristo Botev School, village of Sadina, Targovishte district E-mail: [email protected]