MEETING 9

PASSIVE

A. READ THE TEXT BELOW

Name of injured person Abdul Azizi
Address Flat 267, Block 65, New City, Birmingham
Phone number 0121121212
Age 9
Female/Male Male
Job title Not applicable
Who was the injured person?
Employee
On training scheme
On work experience
Employed by someone else
Self-employed
Member of the public √
Kind of accident
Contact with moving machinery
Hit by moving object
Hit by moving vehicle √
Hit something fixed
Injured while handling, lifting, carrying
Slipped tripped, fell
Trapped
Drowned
Exposed to harmful substances
Exposed to fire
Exposed to electricity
Injured by animal
Physically assaulted by a person
Description of what happened Abdul was hit by a moving dumper truck which
was carrying earth on the construction site in
Main Road. The truck driver did not see Abdul,
who had entered the site. Jolan Balog, Site
Foreman, saw the accident and called an
ambulance. Jolan and two other workers stayed
with abdul until the ambulance arrived. At
hospital, Abdul was X-rayed and found to have a
broken leg and bruised arms.

B. PASSIVE
 Form of the passive: be + past participle (V3)
 In the passive, the object of an active verb becomes the subject of the passive verb
 Only transitive verbs (verbs that are followed by an object) are used in the passive.
It is not possible to use verbs such happen, sleep, come, seem
PASSIVE VERB TENSES
 ACTIVE VOICE
SIMPLE PRESENT Tonny helps John
PRESENT CONTINUOUS Tonny is helping John
PRESENT PERFECT Tonny has helped Jon
SIMPLE PAST Tonny helped John
PAST CONTINUOUS Tonny was helping John
PAST PERFECT Tonny had helped John
SIMPLE FUTURE Tonny will help John
BE GOING TO Tonny is going to help John
FUTURE PERFECT Tonny will have helped John
PASSIVE VOICE
John is helped by Tonny
John is being helped by Tonny
John has been helped by Tonny
John was helped by Tonny
John was being helped by Tonny
John had been helped by Tonny
John will be helped by Tonny
John is going to be helped by Tonny
John will have been helped by Tonny

C. WRITE THE MISSING SIMPLE FORM, SIMPLE PAST AND PAST PARTICIPLE
No. Simple Form Simple Past Past Participle
1. sell
2. bought
3. begin
4. had
5. catch
6. quit
7. found
8. make
9. taken
10. breake
11. came
12. slept
13. sweep
14. built
15. fight

D. ACTIVE VS PASSIVE
1. ________ Henry was working on an electrical installation.
2. ________ Anthony was hit by a moving dumper truck.
3. ________ The electrical equipment and materials were prepared by Tom.
4. ________ Ronny maintains the electrical eqipment in his company.
5. ________ The electrical engineering projects and studies were done by Timothy’s
team.
6. ________ Tommy had a great collaboration with a variety of tecnicians.
7. ________ The installation project was supervised by the manager.
8. ________ Those electrical products and systems were designed by my husband.
9. ________ An elecrtrical engineer uses computer-assisted engineering software to
perform engineering tasks.
10. ________ Joe is going to evaluate systems’ safety, realibility and perfomance.
E. CHANGE THESE SENTENCES INTO PASSIVE FORMS
1. Tonny and Sam saw the accident.
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2. The treatment had cured Roy’s injury.
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3. Electrical engineers design the electrical products and systems.
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4. A security was protecting the installation area.
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5. The manager has made a decision.
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6. Sonny will write the accident report.
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7. My dad and his team built the new towers near my house
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8. Experienced engineers design engineer software and equipment.
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9. The doctor will examine George’s injury.
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10. Mr. Taylor had sent the email.
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F. CHANGE THESE SENTENCES INTO ACTIVE FORMS

1. The flow of gas to the burner is controlled by a valve.
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2. Each train is driven by an electric motor.
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3. The train is lifted from the track by magnetic attraction.
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4. The power is sent by cable to the national grid.
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5. The electricity installation will be done by an electrical engineer
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