The Active and The Passive Sentence-Basic Examples
The Active and The Passive Sentence-Basic Examples
A lot of ESL students get confused with Active and Passive Sentences, so in this post, I am going to discuss the difference between the two, using simple sentences as our examples. We will use the more advanced and TOEIC-level sentences in my next post.
Simple Examples:
John cleans the room every day.
John-Subject (The doer/performer of the action)
Cleans- Verb (What does the
subject do?)
The room- This is the object of the verb,
this is the receiver of the action.
Every day- This is an adverb,
we will not focus on this for now. Let’s
focus on the structure of the sentences first.
Note: In a Passive Sentence, we don’t have to repeat “by someone” again and again . It’s understood, it’s implied that somebody did it. We are just interested in what happens to the subject, or the topic, of the sentence. We will discuss this more in my next post.
Present Simple:
Active: John cleans the room every day
Passive: The room is cleaned by John every day.
Negative:
Active: John doesn’t clean the
room every day.
Passive: The room isn’t cleaned
every day.
Present Continuous:
Active: John is cleaning the
room. (now)
Passive: The room is being
cleaned by John. (now)
Negative:
Active: John isn’t cleaning
the room.
Passive: The room isn’t being
cleaned.
Past Tense
Active: John cleaned the room.
(yesterday, last night, etc.)
Passive: The room was cleaned
by John.
Negative:
Active: John did not clean the
room.
Passive: The room wasn’t
cleaned.
Future:
Active: John will clean the
room.
Passive: The room will be
cleaned by John.
Negative:
Active: John will not clean
the room.
Passive: The room will not be
cleaned.
Active: John is going to clean the room.
Passive: The room is going to
be cleaned.
Negative:
Active: John isn’t going to clean
the room.
Passive: The room isn’t going
to be cleaned.
The Modals:
Active: John should clean the room.
Passive: The room should be
cleaned.
Negative:
Active: John must not clean
the room.
Passive: The room must not be
cleaned.
There are a lot of other modals, but we construct the Active and the Passive in the same pattern.
In my next post, I am going to
use more advanced sentences and of course, we will also discuss some TOEIC-level
sentences.
John-Subject =アクションの実行者/実行者
Cleans- Verb= 主題は何をしますか？
The room- これは動詞の目的語であり、これはアクションの受信者です。
Present Simple:
Active: John cleans the room every day
Passive: The room is cleaned by John every day.
Negative:
Active: John doesn’t clean the room every day.
Passive: The room isn’t cleaned every day.
Present Continuous:
Active: John is cleaning the room. (now)
Passive: The room is being cleaned by John. (now)
Negative:
Active: John isn’t cleaning the room.
Passive: The room isn’t being cleaned.
Past Tense
Active: John cleaned the room. (yesterday, last night, etc.)
Passive: The room was cleaned by John.
Negative:
Active: John did not clean the room.
Passive: The room wasn’t cleaned.
Future:
Active: John will clean the room.
Passive: The room will be cleaned by John.
Negative:
Active: John will not clean the room.
Passive: The room will not be cleaned.
Active: John is going to clean the room.
Passive: The room is going to be cleaned.
Negative:
Active: John isn’t going to clean the room.
Passive: The room isn’t going to be cleaned.
The Modals:
Active: John should clean the room.
Passive: The room should be cleaned.
Negative:
Active: John must not clean the room.
Passive: The room must not be cleaned.
他にも多くのモーダルがありますが、アクティブとパッシブを同じパターンで構築します。
次の投稿では、より高度な文章を使用します。もちろん、TOEICレベルの文章についても説明します。
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