The Passive: General

The Passive: General

Passive voice နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္တဲ့ အေျခခံအသံုးအႏွဳန္းေတြကိုသိၾကျပီးသားျဖစ္မွာပါ။ ပံုေသနည္းေလးကို မွတ္မွိလြယ္ေအာင္ ရိုးရိုးရွင္းရွင္းစာေၾကာင္းေတြနဲ႕ ေလ့လာနိဳင္ပါတယ္။

Present simple:                am/are/is + past participle                

                                     e.g. The office is closed.

Present continuous:                 am/are/is + being + past participle

                                             e.g. The office is being closed at the moment.

Past simple:                             was/were + past participle                                   

                                              e.g. The office was closed yesterday afternoon.

Past continuous:                      was/were + being + past participle                            

                                             e.g. The office was being closed last week.

Present perfect simple:            have/has + been + past participle                          

                                            e.g. The office has been closed just now.

Past perfect simple:                 had + been + past participle                                 

                                             e.g. The office had been closed for two weeks.

Future:                                     will/would/shall/should/ + be + past participle               

                                               e.g. The office will be closed tomorrow.

Compare the active and passive sentence:

Active: Someone has invited Sarah to the party.

Passive: Sarah has been invited to the party.

Uses of the passive:

Passive ကိုသံုးေသာ အေျခအေနမ်ား

-          When we want to highlight the object; ကံ(ျပဳျခင္းခံရသူ)ကို ေပၚလြင္ေစခ်င္ေသာအခါ သံုးသည္။

e.g.Millions of trees are destroyed by pollution every year. (Highlighting millions of trees)

သန္းေပါင္းမ်ားစြာေသာ သစ္ပင္မ်ားပ်က္စီးရတာကို ေပၚလြင္ေစခ်င္တာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

-          When we do not know who or what does something; ဘယ္သူ၊ဘယ္အရာက ျပဳမွန္းမသိရတဲ့အခါ

e.g.My car was stolen last night. (I do not know who stole the car.)

ကားကို ဘယ္သူခိုးမွန္း မသိရလို႔ပါ။

-          When we are not interested in who or what does something; ဘယ္သူ၊ဘယ္အရာက ျပဳလုပ္တယ္ဆိုတာကို စိတ္၀င္မွဳမရွိတဲ့အခါမ်ိဳးမွာ ကံ(ျပဳျခင္းခံရသူ)ကို စာေၾကာင္းေရွ႕မွာထားျပီး သံုးတတ္ပါတယ္။

         e.g.Sarah has been invited to the party. (We're not interested in who has invited      Sarah)  ဘယ္သူကSarah ကို ဖိတ္တယ္ဆိုတာ စိတ္မ၀င္စားပါဘူး။

-          When we do not want to say who or what does something, and when the subject is not important to mention; ဘယ္သူ၊ဘယ္အရာက ျပဳလုပ္တယ္ဆိုတာကို မေဖာ္ျပလိုတဲ့အခါ (သို႔မဟုတ္) ေဖာ္ျပရေလာက္တဲ့ထိ အေရးမၾကီး တဲ့အခါမ်ိဳးမွာလည္း Passiveကိုသံုးပါတယ္။

The house is being painted at the moment. (not necessary and not important to say who are painting)

ဘယ္သူေဆးသုတ္တယ္ဆိုတာကို ေဖာ္ျပဖို႔အေရးမၾကီးပါဘူး။

Task: Kindly write 5-10 sentences using Passive.Thanks

စိတ္စင္စားရင္ Passive ကိုသံုးတဲ့စာေၾကာင္း ငါးေၾကာင္းကေန ဆယ္ေၾကာင္းေလာက္ ေရးၾကည့္ေစခ်င္ပါတယ္။

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