Rock And Rain

anglais

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We use the passive voice when we want to put emphasis on the action and not on the one who does it.( this is only possible with sentences with direct / indirect object).

We form the passive voice with the verb to be and the past participle of the main verb.

To  be      +     past participle

in the active tense)                                            ( of the main verb )   

                                                               

ex:

 Active voice :     Ali     writes     the lesson.

                       (subject)    (main verb)       (Direct object)     

 Passive voiceThe  lesson     is written      by Ali.

                   (subject)         to be +past participle       (agent) 

Note :   We use the passive voice without  by + agent when we are interested more in the action than in the agent, when we don't know the agent or it is easy to understand who the agent is. 

 

Active

Passive

Present simple

Present Continuous

present Perfect

It makes

It is making

It has made

It is made

It is being made

It has been made

Past Simple

Past continuous

Past Perfect

It made

It was making

It had made

It was made

It was being made

It had been made

Future Simple

It will make

It will be made

Modals (Must, can, may,etc)

It must /can/  may /make

It must /can /may be made

Infinitive (present)

-ing form

to make

making

to be made

being made

  Practice:

A) Turn these sentences into the passive:

  • Willy brought a limousine.
  • Ziryab composed some beautiful love songs.
  • Hind lost her family in a road accident.
  • The customer ordered a green salad and a cheese sandwich.
  • I was cleaning my room when the light went out.
  • My wife was making a Pizza when I arrived home.
  • The teacher was explaining the irregular verbs to the students.
  • She had taken all my books.
  • I replied the teacher's question politely.
  • Pablo Picaso had painted Guernica in 1937.

B)   

  • Jalil and Jamal will finish the job tomorrow.
  • The dog will eat the bone.
  • They will move before June.
  • He will have begun the job by next week.
  • Man will have set colonies in the moon by the year 2050.
  • He will have completed his high studies by the end of next year.
  • They are going to offer me a watch for my coming birthday.
  • She is going to invite her freinds for lunch next weekend.

C) 

  • Jalil can speak two foreign languages.
  • The firm may give a high rise to the workers.
  • The lazy students might get weak marks in the test.
  •  Jamal should learn the irregular verbs.
  • Drivers ought to respect the trafic law.
  • Obese people had better practise sport everyday.
  • Moroccan people must apply for visas to travel to the UK.
  • The prisoners have to clean their cells every weekend.

D)

  • My little brother should have broken the vase.
  • He should have got a bad mark in the French test.
  • Students ought to have learned the irregular verbs by heart.
  • The bank may have received my fax.
  • The boss may have offered jamal a new duty in the company.
  • She might have done the homework correctly.  
  • They might have had dinner in a chinese diner.
  • The ministers of foreign affairs might have talked about the world economic crisis.

E)

  •  The firm is building a new factory.
  •  A doctor books after the man.
  •  He gave me a valuable present.
  •  She has lost her handbag.
  •  Will you make the beds at once?
  •  Did he examine the baby?
  •  Where did I put my purse?
  •  Why didn't you mend the roof before it fell in?
  •  You can't leave your bicycle here.
  •  You haven't slept in the bed.
  •  Someone broke into the house.
  •  When will you answer the letters?
  •  Somebody has cleaned my shoes.
  •  They prepared a meal for us.
  •  You did the exercise.
  •  He is examining the baby carefuly.
  •  They will solve the problem.
  •  The boys have broken all the windows.

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