Minggu, 28 April 2013

Passive Voice



The passive voice is a grammatical construction (specifically, a "voice"). The noun or noun phrase that would be the object of an active sentence (such as Our troops defeated the enemy) appears as the subject of a sentence with passive voice (e.g. The enemy was defeated by our troops). Passive voice is used when the focus is on the action. It is not important or not known, however, who or what is performing the action.

Example: My car was stolen.
 
In the example above, the focus is on the fact that my car was stolen. I do not know, however, who did it.

Form of Passive

Subject + finite form of to be + Past Participle (3rd column of irregular verbs)
Example: A car was stolen.
When rewriting active sentences in passive voice, note the following:
  • the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence
  • the finite form of the verb is changed (to be + past participle)
  • the subject of the active sentence becomes the object of the passive sentence (or is dropped)
Examples of Passive

Tense
Subject
Verb
Object
Simple Present
A car
is driven
by John.
Simple Past
A car
was driven
by John.
Present Perfect
A car
has been driven
by John.
Future I
A car
Will be driven
by John.
Hilfsverben
A car
can be driven
by John.

Tense
Subject
Verb
Object
Present Progressive
A car
is being driven
by John.
Past Progressive
A car
was being driven
by John.
Past Perfect
A car
had been driven
by John.
Future II
A car
will have been driven
by John.
Conditional I
A car
would be driven
by John.
Conditional II
A car
would have been driven
by John.

Source

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_passive_voice

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