Passive

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t, havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3,4

Today's objective

Transforming sentences from active voice to passive voice and posessive's.

Table of contents 

Ajax won the match yesterday.

x

The match was won by Ajax.

Transform the sentence below into a passive voice sentence
"Eric ate Jamie's lunch today."

How?

How to transform sentences from active voice to passive voice?

stap 1: Zoek het lijdend voorwerp (Wat/wie?)

stap 2: Zet vooraan in nieuwe zin

stap 3: Zoek de persoonsvorm + alle andere werkwoorden 

stap 4:Bepaal in welke werkwoordstijd (tt/vt)

(gebruik als je hulpwerkwoord een vorm van (to be) 

stap 5: evt. by whom?

passive verb tenses

Present Simple	am/are/is + past participle	The cookie is eaten
Past Simple	was/were + past participle	The cookie was eaten

The articles (write).......... after the Queen had given a press conference yesterday.

The eight o'clock news (present) ....... usaually ........... by George Smith.

Interviews with the President (give).......... to just anyone.

The theft of the famous painting (discover) ..........until this morning.

When ..........these pictures (take)........, before or after their break-up?

Yesterday a boy (arrest)....... for travelling by bus wearing only his boxer shorts.

Everything we discuss here is a secret. So I (force) ........not to say anything.

The Mona Lisa (paint)...........in 1503.

That fax (not send) ..... this morning.

Movie soundtracks ......... always ........ (add) after filming is completed.

Refresh our memory

Explain in short to each other how to transform active voice sentences into passive voice sentences and demonstrate one example 

It think I get this bit.

Yep

Sort of

Not really, but I will get there

Nope