اللغة الإنجليزية — The Passive Voice (صيغة المبني للمجهول): التشكيل والاستخدام مع جميع الأزمنة وتمارين بكالوريا محلولة — الثانية ثانوي — المنهاج الجزائري

درس: The Passive Voice — صيغة المبني للمجهول في الإنجليزية

المستوى: الثانية ثانوي — المادة: اللغة الإنجليزية — المنهاج: الجزائري

Lesson Objectives

• Understand the difference between active and passive voice
• Form the passive voice in different tenses
• Use the passive voice correctly in context
• Solve BAC-style exercises

1. What is the Passive Voice?

In the active voice, the subject performs the action. In the passive voice, the subject receives the action.

Active: The boy eats an apple. Passive: An apple is eaten by the boy.

2. Formation (Structure)

Subject + (to be) + Past Participle (V3) + (by + agent)

3. Passive Voice by Tense

Tense	Active	Passive
Present Simple	write / writes	am/is/are + written
Past Simple	wrote	was/were + written
Future Simple (will)	will write	will be + written
Present Continuous	am/is/are writing	am/is/are being + written
Past Continuous	was/were writing	was/were being + written
Present Perfect	have/has written	have/has been + written
Past Perfect	had written	had been + written
Modal Verbs	can/must write	can be/must be + written

4. When to use the Passive?

• When the agent (doer) is unknown or unimportant: “My car was stolen.”
• When the action is more important than the doer: “The bridge was built in 1990.”
• In scientific and formal writing

5. Special Cases

Verbs with two objects (give, send, offer, tell, etc.):

• Active: She gave me a book.
• Passive 1: I was given a book. (more common)
• Passive 2: A book was given to me.

BAC Exercise (Exercice Corrigé)

Summary

• Passive = Subject + be (conjugated) + V3 + (by + agent)
• Use passive when the agent is unknown or unimportant
• The passive is common in formal and academic English

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