2. Use of the passive voice. • The passive voice is used to put in evidence the subject. • Also used when you want to focus on the action without identifying the person doing it. •
3. Form of the passive verb It is a combination of the verb to be in the appropriate time, more the past participle of the verb that we combine.
4. Exemples: 1. Present Simple: eat/s ---is/are eaten 2. Past Simple: 3. Present Perfect: eat/s----have/has been eaten. 4. Past Perfect Simple: eat/s----was/were eaten.
5. Exemple: 1. Future with will: eat/s----- will be eaten. 2. Going to future: eat/s----- am/is/are goingo to beeaten.
6. The meaning of the active voice and passive voice: The active voice or passive depending on what you want to emphasize is used. a.- If we want to stress is that "I" am not someone who eats the banana, I will use the active voice: I eat a banana. b.- If you want to emphasize is that I'm eating "a banana" and not anything else, I will use the passive voice: A banana is eaten by me.
7. 5 sentences in the active voice and turn them into passive voice: 1. They paint the house / The house is painted by them. 2. They should have bought the house / The house should have been bought. 3. They are collecting the furniture tomorrow / The furniture is being collected tomorrow 4. He writes a book / A book is writen. 5. I write a letter / A letter by me.
