English

1. ACTIVE AND
PASSIVE VOICE

2. I. Objective:
a. Determine whether the sentence are in
active or passive voice;
b. Recognize the sentence pattern with
active voice and passive voice;
c. Rewrite the active voice sentence into a
passive voice or vice versa;
d. Improve awareness in sentence
construction.

3. What is
Voices of the Verb?

4. Voices of Verb
In traditional grammar, voices of
verb is defined as the quality of
verb that indicates whether its
subject acts or is acted upon.
It has two types:
the Active Voice and the
Passive Voice.

5. What is an
Active
Voice?

6. The active voice is the "normal"
voice. This is the voice that we
use most of the time.
In the active voice, the object
receives the action of the verb.
e.g. The children ate the cake

7. “Venus guessed the
movie Conjuring.”
The movie Bird Box
was guessed by
his/her.

8. 1.Identify the subject, the
verb and the object.
2.Move the object to become
the new subject of the
sentence.
3.Check the active sentence.
Steps on how to covert Active to Passive

9. 4. Conjugate the verb ‘be’
5. Add the past participle of the
main verb after the ‘be’ verb.
6. Subject of the Active
sentence.
You need to decide what to
do with subject of your active
sentence.

10. What is a
Passive
Voice?

11. The passive voice is less usual.
In the passive voice, the subject
receives the action of the verb.
We use the passive voice when we
want to make the active object more
important.

12. 1. Move the passive sentences subject
into the active sentences direct
object slot.
2. Remove the auxiliary verb be from
the main verb and change main verbs
form if needed.
3. Place the passive sentences object
of the preposition by into the subject
slot.
Steps on how to covert Passive to
Active

13. 1.Turn the following sentences into a
passive voice.
a.The colorful parrots live in the rainforests.
b.Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa.
c.Lebron James dribbles and passes the
ball.
d.The genius of the class had passed all the
exams which he had taken up.
e.Jenny will pass all her requirements
before the deadline.