The Passive

Question 1

How is the focus of an active and a passive sentence different?

Answer 1

-passive sentence: the focus is on the action or on the person or thing receiving the action

Question 2

What happens with the subject of the active sentence? What do you have to put before the object of the passive sentence?

Answer 2

• it becomes the object of the passive sentence; the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence
• put a by before

Question 3

When is it important to name the agent?

Answer 3

-if the agent is important or if the meaning of the sentence would be unclear

Question 4

How do you make a simple present sentence passive?

Answer 4

-use the present form of be+ the past participle of the main verb

Question 5

How do you make a present perfect sentence passive?

Answer 5

-use has/have + been + the past participle of the main verb

Question 6

How do you make a present progressive sentence passive?

Answer 6

-use the present form of be + being + the past participle of the main verb

Question 7

How do you make a simple past sentence passive?

Answer 7

• use the past form of be+ past participle

- > is the most common

Question 8

How do you make a past progressive sentence passive?

Answer 8

• use the past form of be + being + the past participle

- >is rare

Question 9

Where shouldn’t you use do?

Answer 9

-when you write a question or a negative passive sentence in the simple present or simple past

Question 10

What are transitive verbs? Where can they occur?

Answer 10

• verbs that take an object

- can occur in passive sentence

Question 11

What are intransitive verbs? Can they occur in a passive sentence?

Answer 11

• verbs that do not take an object

- cannot occur in the passive

Question 12

Name some common transitive verbs that occur in the passive?

Answer 12

Q-call, concern, do, expect, find

• give, know, left, lose, make
• put, see, take and use

Question 13

Name some common intransitive verbs, which have no passive form?

Answer 13

• appear, arrive, come, die, fall, go
• happen, live, look, occur, sit,
• smile, stay, wait, and walk

Question 14

Name some verbs that can have two objects? What are the two object called?

Answer 14

• give, offer, show, tell, can

- direct and indirect object

Question 15

What do you have to put before an indirect object that is not in subject position?

Answer 15

• to

- >The report was given to the manager by the team

Question 16

For what is the passive used?

Answer 16

• to describe process, result and to report news events
• > agent not important, focus on thing receiving the action
• when you do not know who performed the action
• to avoid directly blaming or criticizing someone

Question 17

Name some common verbs to describe a process or a result?

Answer 17

-compare, develop, examine, make, measure, study and test