NOLA ALDATU AKTIBATIK PASIBARA 1. ADITZAK / VERBS
?To change a verb from active into passive form we identify the tense of the verb.Then we write the equivalent tense of the
verb “to be” and we finish by adding as the last element the
past participle of the verb we want to use,
?Examples:
They see they are seen
Pres.Simp. Pres.Simp. Verb ”to be” + past participle verb “to see” I needed I was needed
Past Simp. Past Simp. Verb “to be” + past participle of verb “to need” You will stop You will be stopped Fut.Simple Fut.Simp. verb “tobe” + past participle verb “to stop”
2. ESALDIAK / SENTENCES
?To change a whole sentence we must follow the following steps:
1) identify the subject, verb and object
2) Move the object to the first position (and the subject to the third
position preceded by the preposition “ by”, only if the information it
gives us is really essential)
3) Change the verb from the active into the passive form,following the
procedure above (1)
?Examples:
1) The students cleaned the blackboard
Subject Verb (Past simple) object
2) The blackboard .................... by the students Passive subject agent
3) The blackboard was cleaned by the students Past simp. Passive
1) The teacher will mark our tests
Subject verb (Fut.Simp.) object
2) Our tests .........…………… by the teacher
Passive subject agent
3) Our test will be marked by the teacher
Fut.Simp. passive
3. MOST IMPORTANT TENSE CHANGES FROM ACTIVE
TO PASSIVE / AKTIBATIK PASIBARA PASATZEKO ALDI ALDAKETARIK INPORTANTEENAK
VERB TENSE ACTIVE PASSIVE
Present Simple :It breaks It is broken
Present
It is breaking It is being broken. Continuous
Past Simple It broke It was broken
Past continuous It was breaking It was being
broken
Present Perfect It has broken It has been broken Past Perfect It had broken It had been broken Future Simple It will break It will be broken
Simple Conditional It would break It would be broken “Going to” future It is going to break It is going to be
broken