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THE ENGLISH PASSIVE FORM
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Level:
This lesson can be used on all ages of elementary to intermediate students.
Target:
The aim of this lesson is to teach students how form the passive form in English.
An active sentence like I drank two cups of coffee has the subject first (the person or thing that does the verb), followed by the verb, and finally the object (the person or thing that the action happens to).
So, in this example, the subject is ‘I’, the verb is ‘drank’ and the object is ‘two cups of coffee’.
But, we don’t always need to make sentences this way. We might want to put the object first, or perhaps we don’t want to say who did something. This can happen for lots of reasons (see the explanation further down the page). In this case, we can use a passive, which puts the object first:
Two cups of coffee were drunk (we can add ‘by me’ if we want, but it isn’t necessary).
How to make the Passive in English
We make the passive by putting the verb ‘to be’ into whatever tense we need and then adding the past participle. For regular verbs, we make the past participle by adding ‘ed’ to the infinitive. So play becomes played.
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