PASSIVE VOICE PASSIVE VOICE What happened? Do you know who did it? © Teacher: Catarina Fernandes.

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1 PASSIVE VOICE PASSIVE VOICE What happened? Do you know who did it? © Teacher: Catarina Fernandes

2 PASSIVE VOICE Do we know who did it? Observe: ? stole my car. What happened?  My car was stolen. No!

3 PASSIVE VOICE Observe: The journalist wrote an article. What happened?  An article was written by the journalist. Are we interested in who did it? No!

4 PASSIVE VOICE So we use the Passive Voice when we… My car was stolen. …don’t know who did something: …are more interested in what happened: An article was written by the journalist. It is used in newspapers and in formal notices.

5 PASSIVE VOICE What do we need to form the Passive? wrote was written (v. to Write, Past Simple) v. to Be, Past Simple Main verb, Past Participle

6 PASSIVE VOICE What changes occur? The journalist wrote an article. An article was written by the journalist. SubjectActive verbActive object Passive SubjectPassive verb By-phrase (sometimes optional)

7 PASSIVE VOICE VERB CHANGES was/were stolenstole Past Simple am/is/are writtenwrite/writes Present Simple PASSIVE VOICEACTIVE VOICEVERB TENSES

8 PASSIVE VOICE More examples… Children and adults watch television. (v. to Watch, Present Simple) Television is watched by children and adults. (v. to Be, Present Simple + v. to Watch, Past Participle) The police arrested the thieves. (v. to Arrest, Past Simple) The thieves were arrested by the police. (v. to Be, Past Simple + v. to Watch, Past Participle)

9 PASSIVE VOICE Em suma… Usamos a Voz Passiva: quando é mais importante a acção que foi praticada do que quem a praticou, ou ainda quando não sabemos quem a praticou; mais frequentemente em jornais ou avisos formais/notificações. Para transformar uma frase da Voz Activa para a Voz Passiva: o Complemento da frase activa (Active Object) passa a Agente da Passiva (Passive Subject); o verbo principal passa a ser auxiliado pelo verbo TO BE – que é conjugado no tempo em que se encontrava o verbo principal da frase activa – e é conjugado no Particípio Passado (Past Participle); o Sujeito da frase activa (Active Subject) passa a Complemento da Passiva, sempre precedido pela preposição BY (By-phrase).