lunes, 16 de septiembre de 2013
PRESENT SIMPLE PASSIVE
a. Active grammar
Most sentences in English are active.
Form: subject + verb + object.
Americans spend more than $ 110 billion on fast food every year.
Use the passive when who causes the action is unknown or not important.
65 million fast- food meals are eaten every day in the USA.
Form : am /is /are + past particple
These burgers are made from 100% beef.
b. Underline the present simple passive in the next text.
Communication
Fast facts:
Over fifty million text messges are sent each day in the UK.
An average office worker deals with forty-six phone calls, twenty- five emails,sixteen voice mails, twenty-three items of post and nine mobile phone calls every day.
Practice in this link, elementary level: Active and passive voice:
www.englishexercises.org
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