NOLA ALDATU AKTIBATIK PASIBARA

1. ADITZAK / VERBS
To change a verb from active into passive form we identify the
tense of the verb.Then we write the equivalent tense of the
verb to be and we finish by adding as the last element the
past participle of the verb we want to use,
Examples:

They see

they are seen

Pres.Simp. Verb to be + past

Pres.Simp.

I needed

participle verb to see

I was needed
Past Simp. Verb to be + past

Past Simp.

You will stop

Fut.Simple

participle of verb to need

You will be stopped

Fut.Simp. verb tobe +

past participle verb to stop

2. ESALDIAK / SENTENCES
To change a whole sentence we must follow the following steps:
1) identify the subject, verb and object
2) Move the object to the first position (and the subject to the third
position preceded by the preposition by, only if the information it
gives us is really essential)
3) Change the verb from the active into the passive form,following the
procedure above (1)
Examples:

1) The students
Subject

cleaned
Verb (Past simple)

the blackboard
object

2) The blackboard .................... by the students

Passive subject

agent

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Passive voice;Silvana Gutirrez

3) The blackboard was cleaned

by the students

Past simp. Passive

1)

The teacher
Subject

2)

will mark
verb (Fut.Simp.)

object

Our tests ......... by the teacher

Passive subject

3)

our tests

Our test

agent

will be marked

by the teacher

Fut.Simp. passive

3. MOST IMPORTANT TENSE CHANGES FROM ACTIVE

TO PASSIVE / AKTIBATIK PASIBARA PASATZEKO
ALDI ALDAKETARIK INPORTANTEENAK
VERB TENSE

ACTIVE

PASSIVE

Present Simple :
Present
Continuous
Past Simple
Past continuous

It breaks
It is breaking

It is broken
It is being broken.

It broke
It was breaking

Present Perfect
Past Perfect
Future Simple
Simple Conditional
Going to future

It has broken
It had broken
It will break
It would break
It is going to break

It was broken
It was being
broken
It has been broken
It had been broken
It will be broken
It would be broken
It is going to be
broken

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Passive voice;Silvana Gutirrez