The Passive Voice

The passive voice is an easy lesson as long as we understand two things:

1. Sentence order.
2. The rule of passive voice.

Sentence order

Consider these changes in the table below:

ACTIVE STRUCTURE			PASSIVE STRUCTURE
Subject(1)	Verb(2)	Object (3)	Object (3)	Verb(2)	Subject(1)
Tom	Speaks	English	English	is spoken	by Tom
The students	wrote	the lesson	The lesson	was written	by students
My dad	is reading	a newspaper	a newspaper	is being read	by my father

As you may have noticed that the structure of the active is different from the passive in this way :

1. Active :    Subject + Verb + object
2. Passive :  Object  + verb  + subject

you may also have noticed that the verbs form in the active is different from the passive, and this is our next step in understanding this lesson.

The rule of passive voice