Passive Voice
You may ask: What is Passive Voice used
for? And I may answer: Three main points:
- The action is the main focus
and comes in first place;
- Who did, performed the action
is not important, but if you want to tell, you have to use “by”.
- It sounds impersonal and it’s
often used in formal English and to give news (radios, newspapers,
internet, Tv and further information about a subject)
When we talk about Passive Voice, we have
to bear in mind its specific structure. It’s composed by:
TO BE (Active Voice
Tense) + PAST PARTICPLE (Main Verb)
Check out these examples:
Active Voice: Susan washes the car.
Passive Voice: The car is washed by Susan.
The point in Passive Voice is to observe
the Active Voice statement and after
that build a new statement in Passive Voice, always observing the structure.
Right below you’re going to find a chart
with the main tenses in Active Voice and Passive Voice.
Verb Tense
|
Active Voice
|
Passive Voice
|
Present Simple
|
She washes
the car.
|
The car is washed
by her
|
Past Simple
|
She washed
the car.
|
The car was washed
by her
|
Future
|
She will wash
the car.
|
The car will be washed
by her
|
Conditional
|
She would wash
the car
|
The car would be washed
by her
|
Going to
|
She is going to wash
the car.
|
The car is going to
washed by her
|
Present Perfect
|
She has washed
the car.
|
The car has been washed
by her
|
Past Perfect
|
She had washed
the car.
|
The car had been washed
by her
|
Present Continuous
|
She is washing
the car.
|
The car is being washed
by her
|
Past Continuous
|
She was washing
the car.
|
The car was being washed
by her
|