The description about Passive Voice, and Uses of Passive Voice in Sentences Passive Voice and their examples,Structure of Passive Voice,
Passive Voice:
1. The Passive of an active tense is formed by putting the verb to be into the same tense as the active verb and adding the past participle of the active verb.
Active: We keep the butter here
Passive: The butter is Kept here
Active: They broke the window
Passive: The window was broken
Active: People have seen wolves in the streets.
Passive: Wolves have been seen in the streets.
Note: The Passive of continues tense. This sometimes seems difficult because it requires the present continues form of to be, which is not otherwise much used:
Active: They are repairing the bridge
Passive: The bridge is being repaired
Active: They were carrying the injured player off the field.
Passive: The injured player was being carried off the field.
Other continuous tense are exceedingly rarely used in passive, so that sentences such as:
They have/had been repairing the road
They will/would be repairing the road
are not normally put into the passive.
2. Auxiliary + infinitive combinations are are made passive by using a passive infinitive:
Active: you must shut these door
Passive: these doors must be shut
Active: you ought to open the window
Passive: The windows ought to be open
Active: They should have told him ( Perfect infinitive active)
Passive: He should have been told ( Perfect infinitive Passive)
Note: All construction such as:
His decision is to be regretted = We regret his decision.
if he is to be believed ....= if we believe him ...
3. The Passive gerund is being + past participle:
Active: I remember my father taking me to the Zoo.
Passive: I remember being taken to the Zoo by my father.
Students may like to see a table of active tenses and their passive equivalents.
Click This = Table for Students
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