{"id":1931,"date":"2012-05-09T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-11-16T23:48:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T22:48:32","slug":"passive-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/iescasablancas\/improve-your-english\/passive-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Passive Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"
USE: <\/span>Study the following example.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
            Ancient Egyptians and Greeks used carrier pigeons in ancient times.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
   <\/span><\/i><\/span><\/i>==> Carrier pigeons were used in ancient times <\/span>by ancient Egyptians and Greeks.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
                              <\/span>(thing done)<\/span> <\/span>                                          (doer)<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
So, when do we use the passive? We use the passive in the following cases:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Case 1: <\/span>The thing done is more important than the doer.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
e.g.  A new supermarket was opened in our district last week.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
Case 2: <\/span>Both the thing done and the doer are important.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
e.g. Algeria was colonized by the French.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
Case 3: <\/span>The doer is unknown.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
e.g. A lot of articles are stolen in the supermarket every day.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
Case 4: <\/span>We don\u2019t want to mention the doer.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
e.g. I was told that you had broken my glasses.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

 PASSIVE VOICE Review 05 (Author-Bouabdellah)<\/a>, by T.Bouabdellah<\/p>\n

Passive (Use & Practice)<\/a>, by A.H <\/p>\n

TENSES (Active and Passive)<\/a>, by Irina<\/p>\n

4 exercises Passive voice All TENSES<\/a>, by Irina<\/p>\n

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USE: Study the following example.
\n            Ancient Egyptians and Greeks used carrier pigeons in ancient times.
\n   ==> Carrier pigeons were used in ancient times by ancient Egyptians and Greeks.
\n                              (thing done)                                           (doer)
\nSo, when do we use the passive? We use the passive in the following… Llegeix m\u00e9s\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-improve-your-english","category-passive-voice"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/iescasablancas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/iescasablancas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/iescasablancas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/iescasablancas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/iescasablancas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/iescasablancas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1997,"href":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/iescasablancas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/iescasablancas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/iescasablancas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agora.xtec.cat\/iescasablancas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}