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The Passive

1.  Read the text and analyse

 

One World Trade Center by the numbers

One World Trade Center was scheduled to be completed in early 2014. The 104-story building is topped by a spire that reaches the symbolic height of 1,776 feet. A three-level observation deck called One World Observatory was opened to tourists in 2015.

One World Trade Center is officially America's tallest building. The 8-acre memorial plaza with its twin reflecting pools where the World Trade Center towers once stood was chosen as its site. The plaza was inaugurated in 2011 by Barack Obama on the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks.

The transportation hub was completed by 2015. It connects 13 subway lines and PATH trains to New Jersey, serves 250,000 travellers a day and has replaced the temporary PATH station that was built after the attacks. Two levels of retail space with shops, restaurants, and different services were built that same year.

 

Adapted by Mrs Williams from different sources.

 

2.    Look at the following sentences from the text :

The 104-story building is topped by a spire.

The 8-acre memorial plaza was chosen as its site.

A three-level observation deck was opened to tourists in 2015.

Two levels of retail space were built that same year.

 

 

3.   Repère les groupes verbaux des propositions principales.

Sentence 1    

Sentence 2

Sentence 3      

Sentence 4  

Combien vois-tu d’éléments ?  

Lesquels ?   et un    

Quel élément porte la marque du temps ?      

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Cette structure est le passif : elle sert à braquer un projecteur sur l'élément qui a subit une action.

En devenant le sujet de la phrase passive, cet élément devient l'élément le plus important de la phrase, celui dont on parle alors que l'élément à l'origine de l'action n'est plus que Complément d'agent introduit par BY et n'est parfois même pas mentionné.

 

L'anglais se sert de la structure passive lorsqu'on ne connait pas le responsable d'une action.

Là où le français dira "On m'a volé ma montre."

L'anglais dira "My watch has been stolen". Le sujet ON n'existe pas en anglais. 

Ils utilisent WE pour parler de moi + d'autres personnes et le Passif lorsque ON est indéfini.

 

 

Apprends les éléments qui composent cette voix active grâce à cette mindmap.

 

 

Analyse la formation de la voie passive par rapport à la voie active à chaque temps :

Exercise 1: Active or Passive sentences?

I am going to Paris tomorrow.

I am driven to Paris tomorrow.

He was born in 2015.

I have got a pet.

They will be promoted.  

She has been given some flowers.

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Exercise 2: Put the verbs into the passive form. Choose the correct tense according to the context.

The Bay of New-York by Da Verrazano in 1524.    (discover)

In 2011, the Freedom Tower   on Ground Zero.    (inaugurate) 

NYC for its skyscrapers and the Statue of Liberty.  (know) 

The World Trade Center by 2 planes in a terrorist attack.   (destroy) 

New-York New Amsterdam by the Dutch.  (name) 

The NY Marathon by millions of people every year.  (run) 

A new Mayor next year.   (must elect) 

A lot of books by Paul Auster on NY.   (write) 

Central Park by volunteers at the moment.  (clean) 

Julia by her American aunt twice.  (invite) 

The NY Underground system by millions of people everyday.  (use) 

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Exercise 3: Translate 

Ces jouets ont été fabriqués en Chine.  

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Le voleur a été arrêté par la police.   . 

On sert le petit déjeuner à 7 heures.   . 

Quelqu’un a envoyé une lettre à mon frère.  . 

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Exercise 4: Turn into passive. 

American people saw Audrey Hepburn as the greatest actress in the 1950s.

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When did they shoot Audrey’s last film?  ?

Millions of fans miss her very much.   .

A little girl has brought some flowers to the President.   .

In Africa, AIDS can kill whole families.   .

Why have they repaired the house?   ?

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