Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Now Let's begin to learn 

Passive Voice in Present Continuous and Past Continuous !

Example (Passive Voice in Peresent Continuous Tense) :

  1. Active: I am eating healthy food this year
  2. Passive: Healthy food is being eaten this year.
  3. Active: The tourists are shopping Balinese souvenirs.
  4. Passive: Balinese souvenirs are being shopped by the tourists.
  5. Active: I am not taking a driving course.
  6. Passive: A driving course is not being taken.
Examples of Passive Voice in Past Continuous Tense

1. My friend was baking bread when I came.
   (Teman saya sedang memanggang roti ketika saya datang.)
  
    Bread was being baked when I came.
    (Roti sedang dipanggang ketika saya datang.)

2. They were discussing exchange rates at 7 o’clock this morning.
    (Mereka sedang mendiskusikan kurs pukul 7 pagi ini.)

    Exchange rates were being discussed at 7 o’clock this morning.
    (Kurs sedang didiskusikan pada pukul 7 pagi ini.)


NOW DO THESE EXERCISES !CHANGE THESE BELOW SENTENCES into PASSIVE VOICE

  1. Active: She is training all managers in this company.
  2. Active: Poor people are not attending this big party.
  3. Active: Teens are always playing the smartphones.
  4. Active: The boss is calling Sue.
  5. Active: My friends are not building this big mall.
  6. Active: He was playing the guitar.
  7. Active: The human resource manager said that he was still processing my documents.
  8. Active: Were they carrying bags? 
  9. Active: Was she reading these lines?
  10. Active: Teens are always playing the smartphones.




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