The Passive Voice
By Laécio Miranda
The Passive Voice
A voz passiva é um recurso utilizado quando
queremos enfatizar uma ação e não quem a
fez.
Voz ativa: Nobody knew the answer.
Voz passiva: The answer was not known.
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Quando o agente da passiva, ou seja, o
executor da ação, for mensionado, ele será
precedido pela preposição BY:
Voz ativa: The Supreme Court abolished
racial segregation.
Voz passiva: Racial segregation was
abolished by the Supreme Court.
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Voz ativa: Pilate ordered the execution of
Jesus.
Voz passiva: The execution of Jesus was
ordered by Pilate.
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Na passagem da voz ativa para a voz passiva
ocorrem as seguintes transformações:
► O objeto da voz ativa torna-se o sujeito da
voz passiva.
► O verbo to be (sempre constante na voz
passiva) é usado no tempo em que estiver o
verbo principal na voz ativa.
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► Verbo
principal da voz ativa é sempre usado
no particípio passado na voz passiva.
► Quando o sujeito da voz ativa for um
subject pronoun (I, you, he, she, it, we,
you, they), o agente da passiva corresponde
a ele será um object pronoun (me, you,
him, her, it, us, you, them).
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Observe os exemplos:
Tempo Verbal
Voz ativa
Voz passiva
Simple Present
They make protests.
Protests are made by them.
Simple Past
They made protests.
Protests were made by them.
Simple Future
They will make protests.
Protests will be made by them.
Pres. Continuous
They are making protests.
Protests are being made by them.
Past Continuous
They were making protests.
Protests were being made by them.
Immed. Future
They are going to make
protests.
Protests are going to be made by them.
Present Perfect
They have made protests.
Protests have been made by them.
Past Perfect
They had made protests.
Protests had been made by them.
Conditional
They would make protests.
Protests would be made by them.
Cond. Perfect
They would have made
protests.
Protests would have been made by them.
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Exercises
01 – Rewrite the following sentences in the passive voice
by omitting the passive agent.
A) People speak English in New Zealand.
English is spoken in New Zealand.
B) A thief stole her purse.
Her purse was stolen.
C) We would look for new treatments.
New treatments would be looked for.
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02 - Rewrite the sentences below in the passive voice. Add
the passive agent.
A) The government built a new road there.
A new road was built there by the government.
B) Botanists have declared extinct many species.
Many species have been declared extinct by botanists.
C) Chemists will find out solutions for the cars of
tomorrow.
Solutions for the cars of tomorrow will be found out by
chemists.
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Keep your head cool, and study for the test!!