The Passive

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Passive

Hoe maak je een passive zin?

1. De actie vooraan zetten.

2. vorm van 'to be' toevoegen.
am/are/is/was/were/be
Kijk goed in welke werkwoordtijd de zin staat.

3. Tweede werkwoord veranderen naar een voltooid deelwoord.

active / passive?
Alan teaches geography.

1. active
2. passive

Houses have been built.

1. Active
2. Passive

Is this sentence active or passive?

That letter was written by my grandmother.

1. Active
2. Passive

Active/passive?
Did my sister walk home alone?

1. Active
2. Passive

Active / passive?
She is reading the newspaper now.

1. active
2. passive

Active/passive?
When was the test made by the students?

1. Active
2. Passive

Is the following sentence active or passive?
My pet goldfish was eaten.

1. Active
2. Passive

Passive or active:
She works for them all week.

1. passive
2. active

Active or passive?
Yesterday the farmer milked his cows.

1. Active
2. Passive

Welke van deze zinnen is een PASSIVE?

1. I walked to school yesterday
2. Last month my father bought a book for me
3. The letter was sent an hour ago
4. A man stole my wallet

Which is the correct passive form of:
The dog was eating my homework.

1. My homework was eating the dog.
2. My homework was being eaten by the dog.
3. My homework is being eaten by the dog.
4. My homework was eaten by the dog.

Het boek is in 1999 uitgegeven.

Hoe maak je een passive vorm?

Make passive:
They write a letter

Make passive:
He is playing a computer game.

Make a passive:
Those cars ... (make) since 1876.

Make passive:
She has taken a nice selfie.

More exercises - present simple

1. Somebody prefers chocolate.
   
2. Somebody plays loud music.
3. Somebody speaks English here.
4. Somebody loves the London parks.
5. Somebody reads a lot of books.
6. Somebody cooks dinner every day.
7.  Somebody cleans the classroom every day

 exercises in the Past simple

1. Somebody cleaned the rooms.
2. Somebody fixed the laptop.
3. Somebody built that house.
4. Somebody wrote Esio Trot.
5. Somebody stole my iPad.
6. Somebody closed the windows.

The can ____ just recently. (is geopend)

1. was opened
2. is being opened
3. has been opened
4. is opened

Boys like to play soccer.

1. passive
2. active

Make a passive sentence:
Lots of books ... (read) by children in 1890.

1. are read
2. is read
3. were read
4. have been read

This room has been painted blue.

1. passive
2. active

Cricket is played in Australia.

1. passive
2. active

The friends have been looking forward to meeting her.

1. passive
2. active

The secretary writes an email

The musicians play another song

The emails are sent by the secretary now

The songs are played in a different order

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Passive