Passive voice

• Remember:
• In active voice we focus in a person or an object and the action
• that the subjects do.
• Example:
• Cesar trains dogs
• Cesar is a person, train is the action.
• In passive voice, we focus on the object
and the action that this one receive.
Example:
The dog is trained.
The dog is not a subject because, it is not
doing an action, the dog receive the action
 Active to passive
• Cesar trains dogs.
• 1- Identify the object, normally it is the word after the verb (dogs)
• 2 - Identify the verb (trains)
• 3 – Identify the tense (trains is simple present)
• 4 – Write the verb BE in the same tense of the verb (BE simple presents is: are, am or is)
• 5- Write the verb in past participle (trains – trained)
• 6- Result:
• The dogs are trained by Cesar.
 Active to passive
• Cesar trained dogs.
• 1- Identify the object, normally it is the word after the verb (dogs)
• 2 - Identify the verb (trained)
• 3 – Identify the tense (trains is simple past)
• 4 – Write the verb BE in the same tense of the verb (BE simple presents is: was or were)
• 5- Write the verb in past participle (trained – trained)
• 6- Result:
• The dogs were trained.
 Active to passive
• He has decorated the classroom.
• 1- Identify the object, normally it is the word after the verb (the classroom)
• 2 - Identify the verb (decorate)
• 3 – Identify the tense (decorate is in present perfect)
• 4 – Write the verb BE in the same tense of the verb (BE simple presents is: have been or
has been)
• 5- Write the verb in past participle (decorate-decorated)
• 6- Result:
• The classroom has been decorated (by him)