Passive Voice

Look at these sentences below!
A. Roni breaks  the vase.
B. The vase is broken by Roni.

Sentence A we call Active Voice and sentence B we call Passive Voice.
In passive voice, we change Subject becomes Object and Object becomes Subject.
We use verb 3 (past participle) in passive voice.

Formula for passive voice:

Subject + to be + Verb 3 + Object

Example:
A. Present Simple
Active : Thomas plays football everyday.
Passive: Football is played by Thomas everyday.

B. Present Continuous
Active  : Jeremy is eating hamburger now.
Passive : Hamburger is being eaten by Jeremy now.

C. Past Simple
Active  : They watched telly's programme yesterday.
Passive : Telly's programme  were watched by them yesterday.

D. Past Continuous
Active  : Andre was buying his new shoes.
Passive : His new shoes were being bought by Andre.

E. Present Perfect
Active : Sherly has written the poem for 2 days.
Passive: The poem has been written by Sherly for 2 days.


F. Past Perfect
Active  : I had got a good score.
Passive: A good score had been got by me.

G. Present Future
Active  : Ridho and Imannuel will watch basket competition tomorrow.
Passive : Basket Competition will be watched by Ridho and Imannuel tomorrow.

And so on. Do you understand? Practise it into your talking to improve your English!

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