domingo, 16 de septiembre de 2012


Passive Voice 

 Use:

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. The passive voice is a grammatical construction (specifically, a "voice") in which the subject of a sentence or clause denotes the recipient of the action (the patient) rather than the performer (the agent).  Passive voice is formed with an auxiliary verb (usually be or get) plus a participle (usually the past participle) of a transitive verb.
Example:
TENSE
Active
Passive
Simple Present
He writes a letter
A letter is written by him
Simple Past
He wrote a letter
A letter was written by him
Present Progressive
He is writing a letter
A letter is being writing by him
Past Progressive
He was writing a letter
A letter was being written by him
Present Perfect
He has written a letter
A letter has been written by him
Past Perfect
He had written a letter
A letter had been written by him
Future with Will
He will write a letter
A letter will be written by him
Future with going to
He is going to write a letter
A letter is going to be written by him
Conditional
He would write a letter
A letter would be written by him
Hilfsverben
He can write a letter
A letter can be written by him




Active Voice
In active voice focuses mainly PERSON PERFORMING AN ACTION
Tom writes a letter
Tom is writing a letter
Tom was writing a letter
Tom wrote a letter
Tom has written a letter
Tom had written a letter
Tom will write a letter
Tom is going to write a letter
Tom can write a letter
Tom could write a letter
Tom must write a letter
Tom may write a letter
Tom might write a letter

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