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Anglais
The Passive Voice
2ème année bac Sciences Physiques Anglais The Passive Voice fiche de cours
The passive voice is an easy lesson as long as we understand two things:
- Sentence order.
- 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 :
- Active : Subject + Verb + object
- 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
The verb form in the passive sentence is written this way :
| befBE+PAST PARTICPLE+ Past par |
(Be) takes the tense/time of the verb in the active form .
The following table shows the different tenses in the active/passive forms:| TENSES | ACTIVE | PASSIVE |
| simple present | Leila feeds an animal | an animal is fed by Leila |
| present continuous | Leila is feeding an animal | an animal is being fed by Leila |
| present perfect | Leila has fed an animal | an animal has been fed by Leila |
| simple past | Leila fed an animal | an animal was fed by Leila |
| past continuous | Leila was feeding an animal | an animal was being fed by Leila |
| past perfect | Leila had fed an animal | an animal had been fed by Leila |
| the simple future | Leila will feed an animal | an animal will be fed by Leila |
| future perfect | Leila will have fed an animal | an animal will have been fed by Leila |
| modal verbs | Leila can feed an animal | an animal can be fed by Leila |
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