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PASSIVE

VOICE

INDEX

1. What's the passive voice?

2. How to form it?

3. Examples in diferents tenses.

4. Uses.

5. Passive with know, believe and think.

The passive voice describes what happens to the subject of the sentence. The passive voice emphasizes to the action, which is more important than the subject that realizes it.

This jeans weren't made in Japan.

To say who realizes the action or to ask about this person (who is the agent complement), we add "by".

The first collection was designed by Zara.

The direct complement of the active voice turns into the patient subject of the passive voice.

These trainers are made in China.

People make these trainers in China.

The tense of the passive construction is determined by the tense of the verbe "be".

PAST PERFECT. When he got home he found that all of his money had been stolen

PRESENT SIMPLE.. Spanish is spoken here

PRESENT CONTINUOUS. Your questions are being answered.

TENSES

FUTURE (WILL). It will be painted by next week.

PRESENT PERFECT. The President of America has been shot.

FUTURE (GOING TO). Terry is going to made redundant next year.

PAST SIMPLE. We were invited to the party, but we didn't go.

FUTURE PERFECT. Our baby will have been born before Christmas.

PAST CONTINUOUS. The hotel room was being cleaned when we go back from shopping.

U S E S

  • When we don't know who or what is responsible for the action.

My mobile phone was stolen yesterday.

  • For stylistic reasons, specially to allow the main focus of the sentence to be the subject of the verb.

It was discovered by Cristopher Columbus in 1492.

PASSIVE WITH...

Verbs like know, believe and think are often used in passive constructions, especially in formal language, and are followed by an infinitive.

At that time, the world was thought to be flat.

If the sentence refers to a current belief about a past event, we use the present simple passive followed by a perfect infinitive (to make done something).

Beethoven is now known to have suffered from lead posisonin.g (But that wasn't known at the time).

We can also use an impersonal contruction with it + passive.

At that time, it was though that the world was flat .

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