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TENSES IN ENGLISH: ACTIVE AND PASSIVE
How to change a sentence from active to passive.
Look at table of tenses
Example sentence:
The dog bit the man.
Step 1
.
The dog bit
the man.
Find the object of the verb. (the man)
Make the object the subject of the new sentence.
The man...........
Step 2
.
The dog
bit
the man.
Decide which tense the verb is in. "Simple past"
(see chart)
Put the verb "to be" of this tense.
(look to see if the subject is singular or plural)
The man
was
..........
Step 3.
Bite Bit
Bitten
Write the participle of the verb after the verb "to be"
The man was bitten .............
The man was
bitten.
.........
Step 4
Decide if you want to include the agent in the sentence.
The man was bitten
by the dog
