Active Passive Voice

ACTIVE/PASSIVE VOICE

What are active and passive voice?

TENSES

Simple present

Simple past

Present continuous

Journalists investigate a lot of situationsA lot of situations are investigated by Journalists

A gang of criminals stole a bank yesterday A bank was stolen by a gang of criminals yesterday

Foo Fighters are recording a new album A new album is being recorded by Foo Fighters

General Structure

ACTIVE

PASSIVE

Subject

Object

Verb

Verb

Object

Subject

The difference between active and passive voice

Active voice describes whether the grammatical subject of a clause performs or receives the action of the verb.

In a passive voice construction, the grammatical subject of the clause receives the action of the verb.The object becomes the subject

->Use the active voice if it makes your sentence sound clearer and more natural->Forming passive voice requires the verb “to be” and a past participle ->The passive voice is your friend when the thing receiving an action is the important part of the sentence—especially in scientific and legal contexts, times when the performer of an action is unknown, or cases where the subject is distracting or irrelevant

FUTURE FORMS OF PASSIVE

• The simple future tense is made by putting will + be before the past participle form of the verb.
• In the passive voice, the emphasis is put on the effect of an action rather than on the doer

I will send the letter tomorrow The letter will be sent tomorrow

Modals --- can, should, must ...

The auxiliary verb used in passive voice is: BE

He can drive a car The car can be driven by him We must respect the law The law must be respected by us I should buy this guitar The guitar should be bought by me

Second conditional / Third conditional

Jhon would write a story The story would be written by Jhon

Jhon would have written s story The story would have been written by Jhon

More tenses and structures

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