Future Passive Voice

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Future Passive Voice

• Grammar essential 101

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Active/ Passive Voice definition

• A verb is said to be active voice when it
  expresses an action performed by its subject.
• A verb is said to be passive voice when the
  action it expresses is performed upon its
  subject.

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Active / Passive examples

• active voice
• The coach will instruct the players.
• The subject performs the action.
• Passive voice
• The players will be instructed by the coach.
• The subject receives the action.

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Passive or active?

• The album will be received unfavorably by the
  fans.
• The student body elects its council reps.
• Angelos courageous act averted a tragedy.
• A bit part will be played by the well-known
  actor.
• Someone at the airport recognized the popular
  actor.
• A volunteer usually leads the discussions.
• That counting game will be played by more than
  one person.
• A prophets warnings will be usually ignored at
  first.
• WC Handy composed many famous jazz pieces.
• Handys contributions to music will be
  appreciated by many listeners.

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Passive or active?

• The album will be received unfavorably by the
  fans. p
• The student body elects its council reps. a
• Angelos courageous act averted a tragedy. a
• A bit part will be played by the well-known
  actor. p
• Someone at the airport recognized the popular
  actor.a
• A volunteer usually leads the discussions. a
• That counting game will be played by more than
  one person.p
• A prophets warnings will be usually ignored at
  first.p
• WC Handy composed many famous jazz pieces.a
• Handys contributions to music will be
  appreciated by many listeners. p

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Passive voice in Spanish

• Passive voice is always made with the same
  pattern.
• Ser past participle
• If you look at the examples, ser is the first
  part of the passive voice structure followed by a
  past participle in English.

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Future passive voice

• The pattern is the same as present passive voice.
  
• Ser past participle
• The only difference is instead of conjugating ser
  in the present tense, it is now in the future
  tense.
• Ser (future tense) past participle

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Look at the passive examples.

• The album will be received unfavorably by the
  fans.
• A bit part will be played by the well-known
  actor.
• That counting game will be played by more than
  one person.
• A prophets warnings will be usually ignored at
  first.
• Handys contributions to music will be
  appreciated by many listeners.
• Do you see the ser and past participles going to
  happen?

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REMEMBER

• Remember regular past participles are made by
  adding ado or ido to the stem.
• There are the irregulars.
• Abierto / visto / puesto / dicho / cubierto /
  escrito / vuelto / hecho / muerto / roto

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Passive voice

• Passive voice is made using ser (future tense)
  past participle.
• The book will be written
• El libro será escrito
• The map will be read
• El mapa será leído.

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Passive voice

• Unlike the perfect tenses, the past participle
  will agree with the subject of the sentence.
• La mesa será puesta
• The table will be set

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Practice

• The rule will be made by the teacher.
• The house will be dreamed by the artist.
• The alarm clock will be thrown by the child.
• The closet will be cleaned by the manager.
• The storm will be photographed (sacar foto) by
  the person.
• The bottle will be broken by the referee.

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Answers

• The rule will be made by the teacher.
• La regla será hecha por la profesora.
• The house will be dreamed by the artist.
• La casa será soñada por el artista
• The alarm clock will be thrown by the child.
• El despertador será tirado por el chico.