Let's play with active and passive voice (present tense)

Question

Grammar game: Active and Passive Voice - Present Tense

These are the rules:

Write a sentence using first active and then passive voice Write both in Spanish and English

Note: Use any verb and pronoun, but just in present tense

Example:

Voice	English	Spanish
Active	I play tennis on weekends	Juego al tenis los fines de semana
Passive	Tennis is played by me on weekends	El tenis es jugado por mí los fines de semana

This is the table template. If you want to use it, just copy the blue code and paste it:

<table border=3 bgcolor=yellow>
<tr><td><i>Voice</i></td>
<td><i>English</i></td><td>
<i>Spanish</i></td>
<tr><td><b>Active</b></td>
<td>English active sentence</td>
<td>Spanish active sentence</td>
<tr><td><b>Passive</b></td>
<td>English passive sentence</td>
<td>Spanish passive sentence</td>
</table>

Hi Carlos...I corrected a small typo. :-) - --Mariana--, Apr 18, 2010

Carlos...help!! I wish I didn't edit because now your blue code for the table is now a table and not code for us to copy. PLease help! - --Mariana--, Apr 18, 2010

OK Mariane, I fixed the table and thanks for your correction... - Carlos-F, Apr 18, 2010

Ouch...I hate it when that happens - Izanoni1, Apr 18, 2010

Answer 1

Voice	English	Spanish
Active	I am writing an English sentence.	Escribo una oración en español.
Passive	This English sentence is written by me.	Esta oración en español está escrita por mí.

Now I can remove my sunglasses.

I like the tables. - 0074b507, Apr 18, 2010

ewscrita, mejor :frase en español, frse española: a typical Spanish sentence - 00494d19, Apr 18, 2010

está escrita is still passtive voice, is it not? (just not classic Ser+past participle) - 0074b507, Apr 19, 2010

Yes Q, it is passive voice. - Carlos-F, Apr 19, 2010

Answer 2

Voice	English	Spanish
Active	The traffic accident kills 2 men and injures a woman.	El accidente de tráfico mata a dos hombres y hiere a una mujer.
Passive	2 men are killed and a woman is injured by the traffic accident.	Dos hombres son matados muertos y una mujer es herido herida por el accidente de tráfico.

Gracias Carlos. - Krama, Apr 18, 2010

Answer 3

Voz	Inglés	Castellano
Activa	NASA plans to launch a new spacecraft.	La NASA planea lanzar una nave espacial nueva.
Pasiva	A new spacecraft is planned to launch by NASA.	Una nave espacial nueva es planeado lanzar por la NASA.

No sé como fijar esta tabla - Fidalgo, Apr 18, 2010

I just fix your table - Krama, Apr 18, 2010

Gracias, Krama, y también, lo siento. - Fidalgo, Apr 18, 2010

de nada - Krama, Apr 18, 2010

No need for "the NASA," just NASA. You could also probably lose the "to the universe" language and still get the same idea across. - CrazyDiamond, Apr 18, 2010

Gracias por tu corrección, Diamond - Fidalgo, Apr 18, 2010

Aquí la frase castellana utiliza el tiempo presente, pero la frase inglesa utiliza el tiempo presente perfecto. Así que me pregunto si este ejemplo es regular - Fidalgo, Apr 18, 2010

You have made a good example of present perfect. We haven't arrive to that tense yet... - Carlos-F, Apr 18, 2010

Gracias, Maestro. Espero que no te importe reverlo - Fidalgo, Apr 19, 2010

Answer 4

Voice	English	Spanish
Active	My neighbor washes clothes every day.	Mi vecino lava la ropa todos los días.
Passive	The clothes are washed by my neighbor every day.	La ropa son lavado es lavada por mi vecino todos los días.

Gracias, Carlos. I wondered about that! : ) - mar959, Apr 19, 2010

Answer 5

Voice	English	Spanish
Active	I love my son and daughter	Les Amo a mis hijos.
Passive	My son and daughter are loved by me	Mis hijos son amados por mi.

Great idea to work on this Carlos!! Thank you, and I'm awaiting corrections.

NOTE I think it's a pity that in English we have no equivalent noun to say my son/s and daughter/s once they no longer classify as children. The only words I can think of are offspring or progeny which sound remote and unloving. :( Any ideas, folk?

kids - Does this necessarily imply that they are not grown up? - fatchocobo, Apr 18, 2010

"Amo a mis hijos", and no "Les amo..." - antoniodelafe, Apr 18, 2010

Thanks Galsally. Kids seems to be a good suggestion... - Carlos-F, Apr 18, 2010

In England kids are children, definitely .... or young goats of course! - galsally, Apr 19, 2010

gracias antonio. :) Was uncertain whether or not it required the object pronoun. - galsally, Apr 19, 2010

In Ireland they sometimes say "The young fella/lad" or the "young one" for a girl. This need to identify the gender might come from the fact in Gaeilic we can make this distinction. - barhamo, Apr 19, 2010

Answer 6

Voice	English	Spanish
Active	I guard alpacas.	Protejo las alpacas.
Passive	The alpacas are guarded by me.	Las alpacas son están protegidas por mi.

Answer 7

Voice	English	Spanish
Active	I take care of my daughter the best that I can.	Cuido a mi hija lo mejor que puedo.
Passive	My daughter is best taken care of, by me.	Mi hija está cuidada por mí lo mejor que puedo.

...thanks Carlos:) - luz_72, Apr 19, 2010

Answer 8

Voice	English	Spanish
Active	I wrote a letter to my Aunt Lucrecia who lives in Portugal.	Escribí una carta a mi tia Lucrecia quien vive en Portugal.
Passive	The letter to my Aunt Lucrecia who lives in Portugal, was written by me.	La carta a mi tia Lucrecia, quien vive en Portugal, fue escrito por mí.

I fixed your table Lucrecia, but this is not present tense....

Carlos, Lo siento...I need to pay better attention to the instructions...I was wondering why the other entries were all in the present tense...and, thank you for fixing my table. Lucrecia - Lucrecia, Apr 18, 2010

Answer 9

disparar = to shoot

Voice	English	Spanish
Active	John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln.	John Wilkes Booth disparó a Abraham Lincoln.
Passive	Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth.	Abraham Lincoln fue disparado por John Wilkes Booth.

This is not present tense

Rassa frassa! Curse my lack of reading comprehension skills.

OK, let’s try this again:

destruir = to destroy

Voice	English	Spanish
Active	Godzilla destroys Tokyo.	Godzilla destruye Tokio.
Passive	Tokyo is destroyed by Godzilla.	Tokio fue es destruido por Godzilla.

Very good - Carlos-F, Apr 18, 2010

Answer 10

Voice	English	Spanish
Active	I read the book.	Leo el libro.
Passive	The book is read by me..	El libro es leído por mi.

Very good - Carlos-F, Apr 18, 2010

Answer 11

Voice	English	Spanish
Active	I love my little puppy	Amo a mi perrito
Passive	My puppy is loved by me	Mi perrito es amado por mi

Excellent... - Carlos-F, Apr 18, 2010

Answer 12

Voice	English	Spanish
Active	I make mistakes when writing in Spanish.	Hago Cometo errores al escribir en español.
Passive	The mistakes are made by me.	Los errores son hechos cometidos por mí.

Correct my Spanish please!

swing, a sentence in Spanish needs to have a direct object to pass to passive, your sentence does not have one - 00494d19, Apr 18, 2010

changed the sentence - swing, Apr 18, 2010

Answer 13

Voice	English	Spanish
Active	My son pesters our cat.	Mi hijo molesta a nuestro gato.
Passive	Our cat is pestered by our son.	Nuestro gato es molestado por mi hijo.

Corregid mi español, por favor :)) - Issabela, Apr 18, 2010

a - 00494d19, Apr 18, 2010

thanks - Issabela, Apr 18, 2010

Answer 14

Voice	English	Spanish
Active	I throw the ball	Yo tiro la bola.
Passive	The ball is thrown by me	La bola es tirado tirada por mí

...es tirada por mí. - Carlos-F, Apr 18, 2010

Answer 15

Voice	English	Spanish
Active	I drive the car.	Conduje Conduzco el choche.
Passive	The car is driven by me.	El coche es conducido por mí.

conduzco, es conducido - 0074b507, Apr 18, 2010