Need Help with Passive Voice Grammar Exercise.

Question

Completa cada oración usando la voz pasiva. Utiliza el presente del verbo ser y el participio pasado de los verbos entre paréntesis.

I have put my answers in bold. I am positive about my answers except #2,3 and 6, which I'm not entirely sure if they are correct.

1) El concierto es organizado (organizar) por un grupo de la comunidad.

2) Los políticos corruptos son criticados (criticar) por la gente.

3) Todos los pasajeros son llevados (llevar) a una oficina por los oficiales de aduana.

4) El alcalde es elegido (elegir) por el pueblo cada cuatro años

5) El inmigrante es detenido (detener) por el policía en la frontera.

6) La frontera es cerrada (cerrar) por la policía.

Also, I keep getting this one question wrong. I have to use either indicative or subjunctive of the verb in parenthesis.

1) Orlando vio cómo un grupo de personas desembarcaba (desembarcar) del barco.

Thank You for your feedback.

Answer 1

Ken answered your first part, for the second question:

1) Orlando vio cómo un grupo de personas desembarque (desembarcar) del barco.

I would use past preterit indicative, I see no reason for present subjunctive at all. It is a single event he watched in the past, that happened.

Vio cómo un grupo desembarcó.

He saw how a group disembarked.

:) - 006595c6, Aug 5, 2017

Gracias, Heidita. :) - bosquederoble, Aug 5, 2017

Answer 2

Syeda6547:

Yes: 2, 3 and 6 need to be changed so the past participle (e.g. cerrado) needs to agree in number and gender with the passive subject when you use ser passive.

criticados, llevados, and cerrada.

Regarding the sentence, I see no need for the subjunctive here.

Orlando vio cómo un grupo de personas desembarcó de el barco.

Orlando saw how a group of people disembarked from the ship.

I would use the preterite here only if he saw them finish the disembarking.

OR

Orlando vio cómo un grupo de personas desembarcaba del barco.

Orlando saw how a group of people were disembarking from the ship.

This uses the imperfect and implies that he saw how they were disembarking but did not see the end of the disembarking...maybe it is still going on.

Or

The is the possibility of using the present progress estaba desembarcando but I'll assume you may not have learned that yet.

Oh you added it while I was answering, but in the second, we came to different conclusions. I agreed with your first part, so did not repeat it. :) - bosquederoble, Aug 5, 2017

Bosque: you're probably right about the preterite. I gave him both options with varying English. If we had the English in this case we could probably tell what they are looking for. :) - DilKen, Aug 5, 2017

My guess is the machine wants embarcó because it is constrained by vio, but depending on the situation one could argue for anything you put I think. :) - bosquederoble, Aug 5, 2017

You're probably right about both things :) - DilKen, Aug 5, 2017

Normally if I wanted to use imperfect there, I would stick in mientras- vio un grupo mientras desembarcaba. :) - bosquederoble, Aug 5, 2017

Good point. Cuando also tends to have one preterite and one imperfect. When I came home (preterite) my mother was cooking (imperfect) dinner. - DilKen, Aug 5, 2017

Thankyou to everyone for your help and explanations. I have edited the incorrect once with the correct answers. - Syeda6547, Aug 5, 2017