Passive Voice - Страдательный Залог

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Look at the two sentences below and answer the questions about them:

• The king invited Lady Helena to sing at the celebrations.
• Lady Helena was invited to sing at the celebrations.

1. From what sentences do we know who invites Lady Helena?
2. How can we express who invites her in the second sentence? What word shall we use? (look at the picture above for help).
3. Which sentence is in the Passive Voice and which one is in Active? How can you tell that the sentence is Passive?

PASSIVE VOICE  be + V3 (V-ed) e.g.: was invited, is taught, will be sent

Passive Voice is more formal than Active Voice.
Passive Voice is used when the action is more important than the doer of the action.
The doer of the action is introduced through the preposition 'by', e.g. 'Merlin was called by the dragon'

Passive Voice is NOT used with:

• Present perfect continuous tense
• Past perfect continuous tense
• Future continuous tense
• Future perfect continuous tense
• Sentence having Intransitive verbs - Непереходные глаголы (walk, go, run, etc.)

Active and Passive Voices - Present Tenses

                                        Active and Passive Voices - Past Tenses

Active and Passive Voices - Future Tenses

Are these sentences Active or Passive? 1) They often listen to music from the palace.

2) Morgana is reading a book of spells.

3) These spells were produced by an evil witch.

4) Gaius teaches Merlin to use magic for good.

5) English is spoken in Camelot.

6) Lots of sorcerers were beheaded by Uther Pendragen.

7) Morgana refused to go to the feast.

8) The sorcerer was caught yesterday.

9) Merlin should never use magic for idiotic pranks.

10) Celebrations have been organized. Watch the video from Merlin - The Dragon's Call III and write down all the sentences that are in Passive Voice: More exercises (self-check) on Passive Voice: Exercises on Passive (Form) Exercise on Passive with Simple Present  Exercise on Passive with Simple Past  Exercise on Passive with Present Perfect  Exercise on Passive with Future I  Exercises on Passive (Active → Passive) Exercise on Passive with Simple Present  Exercise on Passive with Simple Past  Exercise on Passive with Present Perfect  Exercise on Passive with Future I  Exercise on Passive with Auxiliary Verbs  Mixed Exercise on Passive with Passive  Sentences with 2 Objects (Indirect Object, Personal Passive)   Sentences with 2 Objects (Direct Object)   Personal Passive (verbs of perception)   Exercise on Passive with Present Progressive  Exercise on Passive with Past Progressive  Exercise on Passive with Past Perfect  Exercise on Passive with Future II  Exercise on Passive with Conditional I  Exercise on Passive with Conditional II  Exercises on Passive (Active or Passive) Exercise on Simple Present  Exercise on Simple Past  Exercise on Present Perfect  Exercise on Future I with will  Exercise – The Statue of Liberty   Exercise – Portal Dolmen   Summary – The Fellowship of the Ring, part 2, part 3  Grammar in Texts Show Passive Voice in „The Canterville Ghost“  Grammar Exercise on „Washington, DC“  Show Passive Voice in „History of Snowboarding“  Tests on Passive Tenses Active and Passive