Xpl12 Passive Voice
Xpl12 Passive Voice
Xpl12 Passive Voice
VOICE
XPLORE 12
Unit 1.2. Killer English
Unit 3.2. Real Hunger Games
Example:
Example:
Theoriginal
The originaltext
textwas
waswritten
writtenininSanskrit
Sanskritbut
but
thisone
this onehas
hasbeen
beenlargely
largelymanipulated.
manipulated.
Example:
Example:
She was taught foreign
She was taught foreign
languages[by
languages [byteachers]
teachers]atat
school.
school.
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After modal verbs the auxiliary verbs be or have
been are used; the have been construction shows a
past event which didn’t happen.
Example:
Example:
AAmultilingualism
multilingualismapproach
approachshould
should
bebefollowed.
followed.
Example:
Example:
Informationcould
Information couldhave
havebeen
beensent
sent
ininone
onelanguage
language[but
[butititwasn’t].
wasn’t].
Passive
To be + Past Participle
Auxiliary Main verb
Example:
Example:
I Iwas
wasgiven
givenaalanguage
languagelesson.
lesson.
Subject
Indirect Direct
Object Object
Passive
We have been given useful skills by school.
Subject Agent
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Passiveconstructions
Passive constructionsare
areoften
oftenused
usedwith
with
verbslike
verbs likesay,
say,believe,
believe,estimate
estimateand
andknow.
know.
1. itit++passive
passiveverb
verb++that-clause
that-clause
2. subject
subject++passive
passiveverb
verb++to-infinitive
to-infinitive
GlobalEnglish
Global Englishisisknown
knowntotohave
havebeen
beenshaped
shapedbyby
culturalinteractions.
cultural interactions.
PASSIVE VOICE
XPLORE 12
Unit 1.2. Killer English
Unit 3.2. Real Hunger Games
Teresa Pinto de Almeida ▪ Paula M. Araújo ▪ Telma Coelho