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The active & passive voice

How to make the Passive in English


We make the passive by putting the verb 'to be' into whatever tense we need and then adding the past participle. For regular verbs, we make the past participle by adding 'ed' to the infinitive. So play becomes played

How to form passive forms of verbs?
TenseActivePassive
Present Tensego, goesis gone (Singular)
are gone (Plural)
Past Tensewentwas went (Singular)
were went (Plural)
Future Tensewill / can / may / must => gowill / can etc. => be gone
Present Continuous Tenseam going
is going
is being going (Singular)
are being going (Plural)
Past Continuous Tenseare going
was going
were eating
was being gone (Singular)
were being gone (Plural)
Future Continuous Tensewill be going
shall be going
No Passive Voice
Present Perfect Tensehave gone
had gone
have been gone (Plural)
has been gone (Singular)
Past Perfect Tensehad gonehad been gone
Future Perfect Tenseshall have gone
will have gone
will have been gone
Present Perfect Continuous Tensehas been going
have been going
No Passive Voice
Past Perfect Continuous Tensehad been goingNo Passive Voice
Future Perfect Continuous Tenseshall have been going
will have been going
No Passive Voice




Example sentences:

Active: I keep the butter in the fridge.
Passive: The butter is kept in the fridge.

Active: They stole the painting.
Passive: The painting was stolen.

Active: They are repairing the road.
Passive: The road is being repaired.

Active: Shakespeare wrote Hamlet.
Passive: Hamlet was written by Shakespeare

Active: A dog bit him.
Passive: He was bitten by a dog.



 

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