passive voice

passive voice

1. Characteristics

   • Is not a tense
     • have same tenses and aspects
       • Focus attention is different
         • Passive voice
           • is focus on
             • Doer of the sentence
           • characterized by
             • Receiver is in the subject position
         • Active voice
           • is focus on
             • Object of the sentence
           • Characterized by
             • Agent is in the subject position

2. It´s divide in

   • Active and passive voice

3. Other characteristics

   • Verbs with no Passive voice
     • Intransitive
       • characterized by
         • Not have objects
     • Transitive nonpassive
       • characterized by
         • sounds awkward utterance

4. Transformation

   • Active voiced into Passive voice
     • It´s needed
       • Object
         • Direct object
       • Direct object takes the subject position
       • Check
         • Aspect
         • Tense
         • Modality
       • Verb to be
       • Principal verb
         • Past Participle