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Passive Voice

Objectives


  1: Functional: To be able to do it.  
  2: Fluidity: Production without any hesitation.

Passive Voice (A2)

First, using English sentences with Afrikaans grammar words, focus on
(B1) Regular Verbs to do Steps 1, 2, and 3. Then repeat the process with
(B2) Separable Verbs to do Steps 1, 2, and 3.

Step 1: Tenses

Do C1-C3 (PASSIVE sentences) with the Present, Future, and Past Tense.

Step 2: Building on the base of Step 1

Add to C1-3:
⁃ D1 Negation in all tenses
⁃ D2 Make Questions of all tenses
⁃ D3 do Negative Questions in all tenses
⁃ D4 add Modals in all tenses.

Step 3: Based on Steps 1 and 2

⁃ D5 Express the sentence with a modal as a negative.
⁃ D6 Express the sentence with a model as a question.
⁃ D7 Express the sentence with a model as a negative question.

Regular Verbs

  • Ben edit* the book.
  • Sue freeze the meat.
  • My parents travel to Africa.
  • The woodpecker poke a hole in the tree.
  • The rugby team exercise all morning.
  • The city council vote on the bill.

* In Afrikaans there is no conjugation of regular verbs, so you use the verb without the S ending for he, she, and it.

Separable Verbs

  • My friends set the computer up.
  • The cleaners throw the trash out.
  • The little boy throw* the lens cap away.
  • The new team put up fierce resistance.
  • The switch board lady put my call through.

 
Note: Ignore S ending in third person singular since Afrikaans does not conjugate the verb.