11/12 Grammar Hammer Test

How do you construct a passive sentence in the present tense?

You swap the nominative subject with the accusative object, put the main verb into past tense (past participle), and then use werden conjugated in the second position.

Identify the parts of the sentence, “Das Projekt wird von einem Mitarbeiter gearbeitet.”

nominative subject/former accusative “Das Projekt,” conjugated verb “wird,” former nominative subject “Mitarbeiter,” past participle verb “gearbeitet”

How do you do passive in the simple past tense?

werden turns into wurden, everything else is the same

How do you do passive in the past-perfect?

change werden to “ist worden,” everything else is the same (no geworden in passive)

How do you do passive in a future tense?

add “werden” infinitive on the end, everything else is the same

When do you use von vs. durch for an agent in the passive?

Von is a person or group of people, durch is an instrument (thing or force)

How to use modals in passive? (different tenses)

present tense - modal replaces werden, and werden gets kicked to the end

simple past - simple past modal replaces werden, and werden gets kicked to the end

perfect - present tense modal is in the second position, the end of the sentence is “worden sein”

future - werden remains in the second position, the end of the sentence is modal + werden

how do you do passive with a dative verb?

the formerly nominative turns into dative, everything is the same

What is the statal passive and how do you form it?

Statal describes the state a object is in, and involves the verb “sein” in place of “werden.” The past participle is functioning more as an adjective than a verb.

ärgerlich über

Ich bin ärgerlich über