Wednesday, 17 October 2018

EF3/4 passive voice

Active voice
Mary helped the boy to do homework.

Passive voice
The boy was helped by Mary with his homework.

1. A strange thing happened yesterday.
2. Jackie scored the winning goal. active
The winning goal was scored by Jackie.

present        past          participle
score           scored      scored


31 Most Commonly Used Verbs in English



1.     be                     was/were              been
2.     have                  had                       had
3.     do                      did                       done
4.     eat                     ate                        eaten
5.     sleep                 slept                      slept
6.     drink                 drank                    drunk
7.     put                    put                         put
8.     keep                  kept                      kept
9.     run
10.   walk
11.   say
12.   get
13.   make
14.   go                           went                  gone
15.   know
16.     take                       took                  taken
17.     see                         saw                   seen
18.    come
19.      think                     thought             thought
20.   look
21.    want                        wanted             wanted
22.   give                          gave                 given
23.     use
24.     find
25.     tell
26.     ask
27.   work
28.      seem                     seemed             seemed
29.      feel
30.        try
    31. leave

Exercise:
5. Dr. Ikeda developed that theory.
That theory was delevoped by Dr Ikeda.

6. Timmy dropped the cup.
The cup was dropped by Timmy.

8. I was interviewed by the  assistant manager.
I am interviewed by the  assistant manager.
I will be interviewed by the  assistant manager.

10. The small fishing village was destroyed by the hurricane.

14. The chalkboard (always) is (always) erased by one of the students.

18. The fire didn't wasn't caused by the lightning.
to be

20. Was the enemy surrounded by the army?

22. Windmills were invented by the Persians.


EASIER MODEL
He fixed the computer. active
The computer was fixed by him. passive
The dantat was bought at T&T.



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