The passive voice

1. The passive voice

2. USE OF THE PASSIVE VOICE
• To indicate that what is important is the action
and the subject is unimportant or unknown.
• To prevent an active sentence whose subject
would they, somebody, someone, etc.

3. FORM OF THE PASSIVE VERB
(GENERAL RULE)
• It is formed with the verb to be more the past
participle of the main verb.
• Passing to a sentence to passive gets to be at
the same time I had the verb in the active
voice.
• The subject is placed at the end of the
preposition preceded by.

4. EXAMPLES
• Present Simple:
• He opens the door / The door is opened by
him
• Past Simple:
• He opened the door/ The door was opened by
him

5. EXAMPLES
• Present Perfect:
• He has opened the door / The door has been
opened by him
• Past Perfect Simple:
• He had opened the door / The door had been
opened by him

6. EXAMPLES
• Future Simple:
• He will open the door / The door will be
opened by him
• Be going to:
• He is going to open the door / The door is
going to be opened by him

7. EXAMPLES
• Modal verbs (must, can , should):
• He can open the door / The door can be
opened by him

8. ACTIVE TO PASSIVE TRANSFORMATION
CHANGES IN THE SENTENCE
• If the subject of the active sentence is a
personal pronoun, active is changed by its
object pronoun (me, you, him, her, it, us, you,
them)
• If there is a direct and indirect complement
the active sentence, the two can be the
subject of the passive sentence.

9. ACTIVE TO PASSIVE TRANSFORMATION
CHANGES IN THE SENTENCE
• If the indirect object is a pronoun, in the
passive form must be used subject.
• If the sentence active there is a modal verb or
be going to, put in passive verb that follows.

10. EXAMPLES:
• They buy newspapers / Newspapers are
bought by them
• I saw the film / The film was seen by me
• We have cooked a chicken / A chicken has
been cooked by us
• Tourism had increased benefits / Benefits had
been increased by tourism
• She will sing a song / A song will be sung by
her

11. By Samuel Romero
Barberán