PAQUITO S. YU MEMORIAL NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL EXERCISE 1: Tell me! Am I Active or Passive?

Lo. Timonan, Dumingag, Zamboanga del Sur

Directions: Read the sentences below then identify whether each
LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET IN ENGLISH 7 sentence is in active or passive voice. Write the corresponding
Quarter 1, WEEK 3 & 4 sentence’ numbers in the table provided.
NAME:____________________________
DATE:_________________ 1. A lullaby song will be sung by her.
2. The delivery boy will bring my orders later.
LESSON 1: ACTIVE VS. PASSIVE VOICE 3. My younger sister cleans the house.
The relationship of the subject to the verb in a sentence is called 4. Ten construction workers built the house.
voice. A sentence is written in the active voice if the subject is 5. Ribbons and medals were always kept by Sophia.
doing the action of the verb. 6. The household chore is done by Brando.
7. Mrs. Olegario cares about the animals.
Example: Ms. Aniya delivered the Xerox machine.
8. Teacher Kyla taught us meaningful lessons yesterday.
9. Every house was disinfected by the Department of Health.
The active voice is straightforward and clear. It focuses on the 10. A delicious cake was baked by my mother this morning.
subject doing the action.
On the other hand, a sentence is written on its passive voice if the ACTIVE PASSIVE
subject receives the action
Example: The Xerox machine was delivered by Ms. Aniya.

LESSON 2: PAST AND PERFECT TENSE

The Simple past and Past perfect tenses are both used to talk
about things that happened in the past. However, we use past
perfect to talk about something that happened before another action
in the past, which is usually expressed by the past simple. The
following pointers shall be remembered when using these two 4. The concert ______ already _______when we _______ the
tenses: stadium. (begin/enter)
5. Until Anne ________ Mark, she ____ never ______in love. (meet,
1. Use the simple past when the action started in the past, be)
finished in the past, and is not continuing now. Use the 6. Bill __________ for years before he finally _______. (smoke/quit)
present perfect when the action started in the past and is 7. _______ Sara ever _______to London by herself before then?
continuing now. The simple past tells us that an action (drive)
happened at a certain time in the past, and is not continuing 8. How many fish ______ the boys _____ by the time it started
anymore. raining? (catch)
9. You ________ them to go to the beach, hadn’t you? (forbid)
2. The past perfect tense is used to show that something 10. The girls _______ in weeks? That’s why they ______ so much
happened before another action in the past. It can also be afterwards. (exercise/hurt)
used to show that something happened before a specific time
in the past.
3. The present perfect tells us that an action started in the past
and it is still happening now, or it is something that happens
regularly. We may need more information to tell us how long
it has been going on. It may also tell us that the time period it
started in is still going on.
4. To form the past perfect tense you use the past tense of the verb
"to have," which is had, and add it to the past participle of the main
verb. For example: subject + had + past participle = past perfect
tense.

EXERCISE 1:

Directions: Fill in the blank/s with the correct form of the verb/s
given in each of the following sentences.

1. After the company _____Joe, he began to work on his first

project. (hire)
2. _____ you _______ the news before you saw it on TV? (hear)
3. Michael didn’t want to see the movie because he _______ the
book yet. (not read)