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Passive Practice

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Autor * Biljana Mišić Ilić, Milena Tanasijević, Aleksandra Vukotić
Klasifikacija * EN-DH-OP-N2-GR-PassivePractice
Težina * Osnovni nivo
Ključne reči * Grammar, sentence structure, verb forms, passive
Ko sluša * Student OAS
Trajanje * 15 minuta
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- to revise the formation of passive
- to revise the use of passive
- to practice using passive to talk about contemporary issues and computer usage
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This part is for IT/PIS/SI students.

I Book LTG, lesson 21, page 45, exercise 6

• Look at the examples A and B in the exercise 6 and answer the questions 1 and 2.

II Here are some active sentences. Turn them into the passive voice. There are several things to take care
about:
a/ Identify the object of the active sentence. It will be the subject of the passive sentence. Be careful, sometimes
it is more than one word! To help you, I’ve already identified them by using red letters.
b/ Identify the main verb. Pay attention to its tense – you will have to use the same tense for the verb ‘be’. Make
sure that in the passive you use the past participle (third column) of the main verb. Check irregular verbs
regularly, they don’t have the usual –ed form!
However, if there is a modal verb (here should, can), you use it in the passive too, and ‘be’ is just ‘be’.
c/ Decide if you are going to keep the Doer of the action in the passive sentence, if it is not important who or
what does the action, omit it.

Turn these sentences into the passive voice:

1. You should keep your filing system as simple as possible.
2. You throw the documents that you no longer need to the Recycle Bin.
3. The user can close down the operating system by choosing the Shut Down option.
4. People first introduced GUIs with the Apple Mac OS.
5. We call the main Windows background screen the desktop.
 6. Windows allows you to display two different folder at the same time.

Book LTG, lesson 21, page 45, exercise 8

This is an exercise that focuses on both how we make passive and why we use it. For each of the sentences 1-
7, say if it is active or passive. (Hint: only one sentence is passive!). Since we know that sometimes it is better to
use passive – change some of the sentences into the passive. Decide where and why passive is more
appropriate than the active. (For example, if action is more important than who does it, or if the doer of the action
is unknown or unimportant, or to put new information at the end of the sentences , to emphasize it.)
Look at the example:
In 1968 someone murdered black civil rights leader, Martin Luther King.
Passive is more appropriate here because the event is more important than the ‘someone’ who was the
murderer and because the word ‘murdered’ is more prominent at the end of the sentence. Therefore, it is better
to have a passive sentence:
In 1968 black civil rights leader, M.L.King was murdered.
Analyze the given sentences in the same way and transform them into passive.

Book LTG, lesson 21, page 45, exercise 9

• Listen to the recording to check your answers to Exercise 8.
Audio Language to go, lesson 21, exercise 9

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