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    The document discusses the active and passive voice in grammar. The active voice is the normal voice where the subject performs the action (e.g. "Cats eat fish"). The passive voice is less common and the subject receives the action (e.g. "Fish are eaten by cats"). The passive voice is used when the object is more important or the subject is unknown. It is formed by using a form of "to be" plus the past participle of the main verb. The passive voice can be conjugated in any tense similarly to the active voice.

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    The document discusses the active and passive voice in grammar. The active voice is the normal voice where the subject performs the action (e.g. "Cats eat fish"). The passive voice is less common and the subject receives the action (e.g. "Fish are eaten by cats"). The passive voice is used when the object is more important or the subject is unknown. It is formed by using a form of "to be" plus the past participle of the main verb. The passive voice can be conjugated in any tense similarly to the active voice.

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    The document discusses the active and passive voice in grammar. The active voice is the normal voice where the subject performs the action (e.g. "Cats eat fish"). The passive voice is less common and the subject receives the action (e.g. "Fish are eaten by cats"). The passive voice is used when the object is more important or the subject is unknown. It is formed by using a form of "to be" plus the past participle of the main verb. The passive voice can be conjugated in any tense similarly to the active voice.

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    Active Voice, Passive Voice.

    There are two special forms for verbs called voice:


    1.
    2.

    Active voice
    Passive voice

    The active voice is the "normal" voice. This is the voice that we use
    most of the time. You are probably already familiar with the active
    voice. In the active voice, the object receives the action of the verb:
    subject verb object
    active

    >
    Cats

    eat

    fish.

    The passive voice is less usual. In the passive voice, the subject
    receives the action of the verb:
    subject verb
    passive

    object

    <
    Fish

    are eaten by cats.

    The object of the active verb becomes the subject of the passive verb:
    subject
    active

    verb

    Everybody drinks

    passive Water

    object
    water.

    is drunk by everybody.

    Passive Voice
    The passive voice is less usual than the active voice. The active voice
    is the "normal" voice. But sometimes we need the passive voice. In
    this lesson we look at how to construct the passive voice, when to use
    it and how to conjugate it.
    Construction of the Passive Voice
    The structure of the passive voice is very simple:
    subject + auxiliary verb (be) + main verb (past participle)
    The main verb is always in its past participle form.
    Look at these examples:
    subject

    auxiliary verb
    (to be)

    main verb (past


    participle)

    Water

    is

    drunk

    by everyone.

    100
    people

    are

    employed

    by this
    company.

    am

    paid

    in euro.

    We

    are

    not paid

    in dollars.

    Are

    they

    paid

    in yen?

    Use of the Passive Voice


    We use the passive when:

    we want to make the active object more important


    we do not know the active subject
    subject

    verb

    object

    give
    importance
    to active
    President Kennedy was killed
    object
    (President
    Kennedy)
    active
    subject
    unknown

    My wallet

    by Lee Harvey Oswald.

    has been stolen. ?

    Note that we always use by to introduce the passive object (Fish are
    eaten by cats).
    Look at this sentence:
    He was killed with a gun.
    Normally we use by to introduce
    the passive object. But the gun is
    not the active subject. The gun did
    not kill him. He was killed by
    somebody with a gun. In the
    active voice, it would be:
    Somebody killed him with a gun.
    The gun is the instrument.
    Somebody is the "agent" or
    "doer".
    Conjugation for the Passive Voice
    We can form the passive in any tense. In fact, conjugation of verbs in
    the passive tense is rather easy, as the main verb is always in past
    participle form and the auxiliary verb is always be. To form the
    required tense, we conjugate the auxiliary verb. So, for example:

    present simple: It is made


    present continuous: It is being made

    present perfect: It has been made

    Here are some examples with most of the possible tenses:


    infinitive

    simple

    to be washed
    present

    It is washed.

    past

    It was washed.

    future

    It will be washed.

    conditional It would be washed.

    continuous

    present

    It is being washed.

    past

    It was being washed.

    future

    It will be being washed.

    conditional It would be being washed.

    perfect simple

    present

    It has been washed.

    past

    It had been washed.

    future

    It will have been washed.

    conditional It would have been washed.

    perfect continuous

    present

    It has been being washed.

    past

    It had been being washed.

    future

    It will have been being washed.

    conditional It would have been being washed.

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