PASSIVE

VOICE
FLSP GRAMMAR
PASSIVE VOICE
◈ English Verbs’ Properties
◈ Distinguishing Between
Active and Passive Voices
◈ Forming the Correct Passive
Voice
 Five Properties of English Verbs
◈ Person, number, voice, mood, and tense are the ve main demonstrated
properties of English verbs when their forms are changed.
◈ One of the properties which needs to be considered is “voice” as it is always
exposed in various English pro ciency tests (in Grammar session).
◈ The voice is a verb form that denotes the relationship between the subject
and object of a narrated event and the event itself. The active voice and the
passive voice are the two forms of voice.
 ACTIVE VS PASSIVE voices
◈ The active voice means a sentence which has a subject that acts upon its verb.
While, the passive voice means a subject that becomes a recipient of a verb’s
action.

◈ Both active and passive voices have di erent emphases.

◈ The active voice emphasizes the doer of the action, while the passive voice
emphasizes the recipient of the action.
ACTIVE vs PASSIVE voices
 POINTS TO REMEMBER
◈ Most people tend to construct sentences with an active voice in daily life.
◈ Active voice verbs are also used when explaining situations and behaviors from
the perspective of the person or object who acts.
◈ However, in formal or academic English, the existence of passive voice is very
fundamental. Thus, it also needs to be well understood.
 PASSIVE VOICE – what is it?
◈ The passive voice is used to show interest in the person or object that
experiences an action rather than the person or object that performs the action.
◈ Passive voice is used when the focus is on the action. Some language experts
said that it is not important or not known, however, what or who is performing
the action.
 PASSIVE VOICE - construction
◈ The passive voice in English is composed of two elements: the appropriate form
of the verbs “to be” (is, are, am, was, were, has been, have been, had been, will be,
will have been, being) + past participle.
◈ The consideration of using “to be” depends on the tenses that are used. The
most common passive form inserts by + object after the past participle.
 PASSIVE VOICE - examples
◈ The car is stolen
◈ The sh was caught by the dolphin
◈ The house has been emptied
PASSIVE VOICE - strategies