🎮 Is, Was or Has Been?

📖 About this game

A game on the passive voice. The rule: the passive is built from a form of be together with the past participle of the verb, and it is the form of be that carries the tense of the sentence. Why three baskets carrying the forms of be alone rather than whole sentences: the past participle is the same across all three tenses, so the whole difference lies in the form of be, and a learner who picks it has kept the tense, which is the lesson. A learner who turns a sentence passive and changes its tense has missed the entire chapter, and that is the expected mistake here, so the three baskets are three tenses rather than three arbitrary forms. The complete passive sentence is computed from the data rather than typed by hand, the past participle, the number of the verb be, and the agent marker, so it can never contradict the active sentence on display. It appears at the reveal together with the name of the tense. Nine sentences. No sign-up.

🕹️ How to play

1. Read the active sentence, or listen to it.
2. Work out its tense: present, past, or perfect?
3. Tap the form of be that keeps that tense.
4. Every sentence you get first try counts for you.