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The Passive Voice
The passive voice is used when the action is more important than the person who does it, or when the doer is unknown. The object of an active sentence becomes the subject of a passive sentence.
Formation
Subject + to be (conjugated) + past participle (+ by + agent). Present Simple Passive: am/is/are + past participle. Example: ‘English is spoken in many countries.’ Past Simple Passive: was/were + past participle. Example: ‘The window was broken by the boy.’
When to Use Passive
1- When the agent is unknown: ‘My bike was stolen.’ 2- When the agent is obvious: ‘The murderer was arrested.’ 3- In scientific or formal writing: ‘The experiment was conducted in 2020.’ 4- To focus on the action: ‘The hospital was built in 1990.’
Exercises
Change to passive: 1- Shakespeare wrote Hamlet. 2- The students clean the classroom every day. 3- My mother made this cake.
