PASIVE VOICE - Practice 2

Pasa a pasiva las siguientes oraciones:

1.      Britney Spears sang her new songs.

2.     The ladies were listening the speech carefully.

3.     My father gets a good salary.

4.     The boss lent me one of his books.

5.     He did not pay the bill.

6.     My neighbour is going to buy a new car.

7.     I had lost my umbrella when it began to rain.

8.     Alice was looking for her pencils.

9.     I will hang a picture on the wall.

10. Susan has not answered your letters.

11.   Amy Winehouse broke an expensive picture at the hotel.Tom's mother keep the yoghurt in the refrigerator

12. Mrs. Thompson has the best garden in town.

13.  We will send the parcel inmediately.

14. The waiter brought a bottle of beer.

15.  The truck was carrying a bag full of money.

16. The students had read the text in class.

17.  We were enjoying our dinner at the restaurant.

18. Sally has accepted the invitation for my birthday party.

19. He repeated the question several times.

PASIVE VOICE - Practice

Read the story and write the verbs in a suitable form (passive or active) in the spaces. Follow the example.

Is It Better To Have Loved And Lost?

I  (love) her with an uncontrollable passion.

We normally spend our lives simply existing. But occasionally something  (happen) which wakes us up and makes us  (feel) alive.

Her name was Ann-Marie, a tall, dark-haired, brown-eyed beauty from France. I respectfully  (admire) her from a distance while she  (go out) with my best friend, but when they  (break up) I  (open) my arms to her and  (give) her my shoulder to cry on. We (become) a couple and  (rent) a flat together near the sea.

I  (remember) the look on her face when we  (make) love. Her spirituality  (take) her to a far away place. A place where only pleasure  (exist). She  (seem) to leave her body and fly away to play with the angels. I  (never/know) such pure intensity before. I  (never/love) with such passion by anyone since.

Plans were made, money  (save) and possessions  (sell). We  (buy)plane tickets for Paris. The night before we  (be) due to leave she  (tell) me about Sean, my close friend. “I  (sleep) with him for three weeks”, she told me. “ But he  (live) in America, and if I  (go) with him, I  (regret) it. My future is with you.

That night I  (can/not) sleep. I  (watch) the hours pass on the clock next to the bed. In the morning the phone  (ring) while we  (have) breakfast. It was Sean. “ I want  (say) goodbye before you  (leave)”, he said. “….and I want (apologize).”
“Our plane  (leave) at 9.30 Sean, I have to go”, I replied coldly. “I can’t forgive you Sean, you know why, don’t you? If I  (am) you, I  (learn) how to be a good friend. You’re a selfish, self-centred bastard, Sean!” I  (hang up) the phone.

Ann-Marie and I  (pack) our lives in two large boxes and  (ship) them to Marseilles. We  (arrive) at the airport just as our flight  (call). “Last call for Air France flight AF404 to Paris, now  (board) at gate number 15.”

People often  (look) for love and  (be) unhappy when it  (not/come). They think it  (make) them complete. It does, for a while, but it  (not/last). Nothing lasts. We started arguing. There was no trust in our relationship. The laughter and affection that we used to have (replace) by jealousy and suspicion. Money  (become) a problem. She was bored and unemployed, I was drinking too much. We fought,  (shout), accused and  (search) for the love we (lose) a long time ago in a different country. Eventually we  (say) goodbye. She  (need)medical help to get her life together. I  (need/be) alone, to think, to lose myself in work and save money for a fresh start.

It  (be) a long time ago. I hope that Ann-Marie and Sean  (be) both happy. I am more careful now when I  (wish) for things, just in case I  (get) what I wish for.

PASIVE VOICE 4º ESO

VOZ ACTIVA Y PASIVA: REGLAS PRACTICAS EN 4 PASOS.

1.  La voz pasiva se forma con  el verbo to be conjugado (en el tiempo en el q esté el verbo activo) + el participio (3ª columna) del verbo que tenemos en activa En inglés es mucho más frecuente que en español y, normalmente, aparece cuando no es importante quien realiza una acción sino el hecho en sí. Por eso, no siempre que veamos una pasiva, tenemos que traducirlo literalmente (pasiva directa) puesto que en español suena más forzado. Sólo es posible el uso de la voz pasiva con verbos transitivos (verbos que llevan complemento directo). Aquí tenéis todas las formas verbales de activa a pasiva en inglés:

VOZ ACTIVA Tom writes a letter Tom is writing a letter Tom was writing a letter Tom wrote a letter Tom has written a letter Tom had written a letter Tom will write a letter Tom is going to write a letter Tom can write a letter Tom could write a letter Tom must write a letter Tom may write a letter Tom might write a letter

VOZ PASIVA A letter is written by Tom A letter is being written by Tom A letter was being written by Tom A letter was written by Tom A letter has been written by Tom A letter had been written by Tom A letter will be written by Tom A letter is going to be written by Tom A letter can be written by Tom A letter could be written by Tom A letter must be written by Tom A letter may be written... A letter might be written...

2.  El complemento agente (sujeto activo) se expresa introducido por la  partícula by. Pero la mayoría de veces  se prescinde C.Agente ya que no nos interesa saber quién ejecuta la acción. Si una oración activa tiene complemento directo e indirecto, cualquiera de los dos complementos puede ser sujeto paciente de la pasiva: (aunque suele preferirse el CI) ACTIVE: Someone gives me a dog PASSIVE 1: A dog is given to me PASSIVE 2: I am given a dog La forma pasiva de doing, seeing, etc es being done, being seen, etc. ACTIVE: I don't like people telling me what to do PASSIVE: I don't like being told what to do

3.  Las construcciones impersonales (se dice, se comenta, etc.) son muy típicas de la pasiva y difíciles de traducir. Este tipo de construcción pasiva  se forma con la estructura sujeto + to be + participle:  It is reported (Se informa) It is said (Se dice) It is known (Se sabe) It is supposed (Se supone) It is considered (Se considera) It is expected (Se espera). Otros ejemplos: ACTIVE: Everybody thinks Cathy works very hard.  PASSIVE 1: Cathy is thought to work very hard. (Se piensa que Cathy...) PASSIVE 2: It is thought that Cathy works very hard. (Se piensa que Cathy...) ACTIVE: They believe Tom is wearing a white pullover. PASSIVE 1: Tom is believed to be wearing a white pullover. (Se cree que...) PASSIVE 2: It is believed that Tom is wearing a white pullover. (Se cree que...)

4.  USOS ADICIONALES DE SUPPOSE a) Se usa en afirmativo para acciones que estaban planeadas, que se supone que van a realizar, u obligaciones que uno debería cumplir. You were supposed to be here at 9:00 am!! b) Otras veces, el uso de supposed indica que estos planes o obligaciones finalmente no se cumplieron: The train was supposed to arrive at 5 o'clock. (but it arrived at 8 o'clock) You were supposed to go to the supermarket. (but you didn't go) c) Por el contrario, en negativo, supposed significa la no conveniencia o prohibición de hacer algo: You are not supposed to smoke here. (you are not allowed to smoke here) You are not supposed to copy our web files. (you must not copy our web files)