Active vs passive voice 3V

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Active vs passive voice

Today's planning:

1. Grammar explanation
2. Check-in questions

3. Practice!

Active vs passive voice

What's the difference?

Active voice: focus ligt op wie de actie doet.

I do the dishes.

Passive voice: focus ligt op de actie.

The dishes are done (by me).

Passive voice

When to use the passive voice?

1. Wanneer niet bekend is wie de actie heeft gedaan;

2. Het maakt niet uit wie de actie heeft gedaan.

The house is painted.

My room is cleaned.

Active → passive

I clean my room → my room is cleaned (by me)

She walked the dog → The dog was walked (by her)

The police are doing an investigation → the investigation is being done (by the police)

Active → passive

I clean my room → my room is cleaned (by me)

She walked the dog → The dog was walked (by her)

The police are doing an investigation → the investigation is being done (by the police)

Active → passive

How to use the passive voice?

1. Het lijdend voorwerp van de (actieve) zin wordt het onderwerp (van de passieve zin).

2. Je zet (in dezelfde tijd als de actieve zin!) het werkwoord 'to be' neer + de past participle.

I clean my room → my room is cleaned (by me)

The tenses

Present simple:

I do the dishes. → The dishes are done (by me).

I help the neighbour. → The neighbour is helped.

Past simple:

She repainted her room. → Her room was repainted (by her).

She read the articles. → The articles were read.

The tenses

Present continuous:

I am throwing a party. → The party is being thrown (by me).

He is doing groceries. → The groceries are being done.

Past continuous:

We were telling the story. → The story was being told (by us).

I was making a painting. → The painting was being made.

The tenses

Present perfect:

They have finished the story. → The story has been finished.

She has baked a cake. → The cake has been baked (by her).

Past perfect:

We had perfected the recipe. → The recipe had been perfected.

Jim had eaten some cookies. → Some cookies had been eaten.

In welke tijd staat deze zin?
The cook was cooking the vegetables in the pan.

1. Past simple
2. Past perfect
3. Past continuous
4. Present perfect

The cook was cooking the vegetables in the pan. →
The vegetables ________ in the pan.

1. were cooking
2. were being cooked
3. had been cooked
4. had been cooking

In welke tijd staat deze zin?
He didn't ask the question.

1. past simple
2. present perfect
3. past continuous
4. present simple

He didn't ask the question.
→
The question ______ by him.

1. hadn't been asked
2. isn't being asked
3. hadn't asked
4. wasn't asked

She was locking the car door.

They had written this paper.

Carol drives in her car.

Practice!

Do exercises 51 - 55 in your workbook (page 118).

Finished? Study the irregular verbs (page 233, 234 and 235).
Both row 2 and 3!

Or study the vocabulary words on page 124.