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The Passive Voice

When we speak or write, we can use active voice
or passive voice.
What is Active Voice?
A feature of sentences in which the subject performs
the action of the verb and the direct object is the goal
or the recipient: The mechanic fixed the car.

What is Passive Voice?

A feature of sentences in which the object or goal of
the action functions as the sentence subject and the
main verb to be and the past participle: The car was
fixed by the mechanic.

Rules
When we make passive sentences, we
must use the correct form verb to be
(AM, ARE, IS, WAS, WERE) plus past
participle. To form past participle we add
ed to the infinitive (regular verb).
When the verb is irregular we use the
verb corresponding.

Form Passive Voice

Subject + finite form of to be + Past Participle

How to form the passive voice?

I

write

letter

Is
written

letter

by

me

In the Active Voice the most

important is who makes the
action
Peter paints the door
Peter as subjects is who makes the
action

In the passive voice the most

important is the action
The door is painted by peter

Mores Examples
TENSE
Simple Present
Simple Past
Present Perfect
Future I
Hilfsverben

SUBJECT

VERB

OBJECT

Active:

Rita

writes

a letter.

Passive:

A letter

is written

by Rita.

Active:

Rita

wrote

a letter.

Passive:

A letter

was written

by Rita.

Active:

Rita

has written

a letter.

Passive:

A letter

has been written

by Rita.

Active:

Rita

will write

a letter.

Passive:

A letter

will be written

by Rita.

Active:

Rita

can write

a letter.

Passive:

A letter

can be written

by Rita.

TENSE

Present
Progressive

SUBJECT

VERB

OBJECT

Active:

Rita

is writing

a letter.

Passive:

A letter

is being written

by Rita.

Past
Progressive

Active:

Rita

was writing

a letter.

Passive:

A letter

was being written

by Rita.

Past Perfect

Active:

Rita

had written

a letter.

Passive:

A letter

had been written

by Rita.

Active:

Rita

will have written

a letter.

Passive:

A letter

will have been written

by Rita.

Active:

Rita

would write

a letter.

Passive:

A letter

would be written

by Rita.

Active:

Rita

would have written

a letter.

Passive:

A letter

would have been written

by Rita.

Future II
Conditional
I
Conditional
II

Passive Sentences with two

objects
SUBJECT

VERB

OBJECT 1

OBJECT 2

Active:

Rita

wrote

a letter

to me.

Passive:

A letter

was written

to me

by Rita.

Passive:

was written

a letter

by Rita.

Practise

What is the correct sentence?

Sentence Active

Over 400 million people speak

English
Sentence Passive

English is spoken by over 400

million people.