Vs We use passive voice when we want to focus on THE OBJECT of the sentence and not on THE SUBJECT, because it’s not important or it is unknown On the contrary, the active voice focuses in THE SUBJECT and not THE OBJECT In the active voice you know exactly who performs the action of the verb Example: • ACTIVE VOICE: The laborers take Subject o o • the milk Main Object verb Who takes the milk to the factory? THE LABORERS What they take? THE MILK object to the factory The rest of the sentence subject PASSIVE VOICE: The Milk is taken Verb to be to the factory The rest of the sentence by the laborers Subject Participle of the main verb The passive voice in the present is formed with the present tense of the VERB TO BE and THE PAST PARTICIPLE of the main verb STEPS FOR PASSING AN ACTIVE VOICE SENTENCE TO A PASSIVE VOICE SENTENCE: Find the object of the sentence by asking what +verb of the sentence Place the object as a subject in the sentence Find the verb to be and places it after the object (it depends if the object is plural or singular (am- isare)) and when it is in past (was (singular)- were (plural)) After the verb write the participle of the main verb Finally, add the complement of the sentence Created by Teacher Natalia Rojas Murillo IN SUMMARY: ACTIVE VOICE TO PASSIVE VOICE The chef washes The potatoes are washed the potatoes by the chef Created by Teacher Natalia Rojas Murillo