The Passive Voice

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Flashcards reviewing the passive voice, including its structure and formation in different tenses.

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Active vs. Passive Voice

When a sentence is written in the active voice, the subject performs the action; in the passive voice, the subject receives the action

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Switching Between Active and Passive

Identify the tense of the active sentence; Keep the same tense in the passive sentence; Make the object of the active sentence into the subject of the passive sentence; Use the correct form of the verb 'to be' + past participle of the main verb.

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Present simple (passive)

am/is/are

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Present perfect (passive)

have/has been

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Past simple (passive)

was/were

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Future simple (passive)

will be