Passive voice made easy (la veu passiva feta fàcil)

Although the passive voice may sound something from another world, especially when it is not in your mother tongue, the truth is that it is not as hard as it looks.

Tot i que la passiva soni a marcianades, especialment quan no és en la teva llengua materna, la veritat és que no és tan difícil com sembla.

This is the structure for the passive voice in the present simple:

SUBJECT + {AM/IS/ARE} + PAST PARTICIPLE (-ed, or 3rd column) + BY …

Si no recordeu quan es fa servir ‘am’, ‘is’ o ‘are’, feu aquests exercicis.

  1. Exercise
  2. Exercise
  3. Exercise
  4. Exercise
  5. Exercise
  6. Exercise
  7. Exercise
  8. Exercise
  9. Exercise
  10. Exercise

And this is the structure for the passive voice in the past simple:

SUBJECT + {WAS/WERE} + PAST PARTICIPLE (-ed, or 3rd column) + BY …

Remember that WAS goes with ‘I’, ‘he, ‘she’, ‘it’.

Recorda que WAS va amb  ‘I’, ‘he, ‘she’, ‘it’.

Try to think of some passive sentences!

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