Thursday, August 10, 2023

Worksheet for all the Passive Verb Tenses

(TESOL Worksheets--Passives)
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I was teaching out of a textbook that contained several exercises on the passives, and seemed to assume that students already knew how to form the passive with a variety of verb tenses.  So, just to confirm that my students knew all the passive verb formations, I made this worksheet here.
It's actually basically the same format as a worksheet I had previously made up here.  But the passive verbs are deleted, so that the students have to try to think of the verb form themselves, and then they check their answer with the answer sheet to confirm their guesses.  (Again, the assumption here is that they've already encountered some of the these forms before, so this worksheet is just review.  Although it could also be used as an introduction in a test-teach-test lesson.)

Write in the passive tenses

aspect

voice

infinitive

past tense

present tense

future tense

simple

active

to eat

he ate pizza

he eats pizza


he will eat pizza

passive








continuous

active

to be eating

he was eating pizza


he is eating pizza


he will be eating pizza

passive








perfect

active

to have eaten

he had eaten pizza

he has eaten pizza


he will have eaten pizza

passive








perfect continuous

active

to have been eating

he had been eating pizza

he has been eating pizza


he will have been eating pizza

passive










answers

aspect

voice

infinitive

past tense

present tense

future tense

simple

active

to eat

he ate pizza

he eats pizza


he will eat pizza

passive

to be eaten

pizza was eaten


pizza is eaten


pizza will be eaten

continuous

active

to be eating

he was eating pizza


he is eating pizza


he will be eating pizza

passive

to be being eaten

pizza was being eaten


pizza is being eaten


pizza will be being eaten

perfect

active

to have eaten

he had eaten pizza

he has eaten pizza


he will have eaten pizza

passive

to have been eaten

pizza had been eaten

pizza has been eaten


pizza will have been eaten

perfect continuous

active

to have been eating

he had been eating pizza

he has been eating pizza


he will have been eating pizza

passive

to have been being eaten

pizza had been being eaten

pizza has been being eaten

pizza will have been being eaten





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