This document discusses the passive voice in English verbs. It provides examples of verbs in the active and passive voice across several tenses, including present, past, future, continuous, perfect, and with modals. For each tense, it gives an example sentence in the active voice and the corresponding sentence in the passive voice formed by adding helping verbs like "is", "are", "was", "were", "been", or "be". The passive voice examples help English language learners understand how to restructure sentences from active to passive form depending on the tense.

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Topic: Parts of Speech (Verbs III)
Audience: English language learners
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ADVERBS
NOUNS
PRONOUNS
PREPOSITIONS
ADJECTIVES
ARTICLES
CONJUNCTIONS
INTERJECTIONS
VERBS IIIVERBS III
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2. Verbs III
Passive Voice
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3. Present Tense (add: am, is, are - in the passive voice)
I do journal writing daily
She often tells me something new
I understand it now
We appreciate it very much
They mark assessments daily
Journal writing is done daily
I am often told something new
It is understood now
It is very much appreciated
Assessments are marked daily
Passive VoicePassive Voice
Active voice: Passive voice:
Simple
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4. Present Continuous Tense (add: being - in the passive voice)
I am writing my journal daily
She is telling me something new
I am doing it now
We are completing it later
You are marking them now
It is being written daily
I am being told something new
It is being done now
It is being completed later
They are being marked now
Passive VoicePassive Voice
Active voice: Passive voice:
Continuous
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5. Present Perfect Tense (add: been - in the passive voice)
I have done journal writing daily
She has told me something new
I have understood it
We have appreciated it
They have marked papers daily
Journal writing has been done daily
I have been told something new
It has been understood
It has been appreciated
Papers have been marked daily
Passive VoicePassive Voice
Active voice: Passive voice:
Perfect
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6. I did journal writing daily
She often told me something new
I understood it afterwards
We appreciated it very much
They marked assessments daily
Journal writing was done daily
I was often told something new
It was understood
It was very much appreciated
Assessments were marked daily
Passive VoicePassive Voice
Active voice: Passive voice:
Past Tense (add: was, were – in the passive voice)
Simple
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7. Past Continuous Tense (add: being - in the passive voice)
I was writing my journal daily
She was telling me something
I was doing it before
We were completing it earlier
You were marking them before
It was being written daily
I was being told something
It was being done before
It was being completed earlier
They were being marked before
Passive VoicePassive Voice
Active voice: Passive voice:
Continuous
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8. Past Perfect Tense (add: been - in the passive voice)
I had done journal writing daily
She had told me something new
I had understood it
We had appreciated it
They had marked papers daily
Journal writing had been done daily
I had been told something new
It had been understood
It had been appreciated
Papers had been marked daily
Passive VoicePassive Voice
Active voice: Passive voice:
Perfect
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9. I will do journal writing daily
She will tell me something new
I will understand it afterwards
We will appreciate it very much
They will mark assessments daily
Journal writing will be done daily
I will be told something new
It will be understood
It will be very much appreciated
Assessments will be marked daily
Passive VoicePassive Voice
Active voice: Passive voice:
Future Tense (add: be – in the passive voice)
Simple
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10. Modals in the Perfect Tense (add: been - in the passive voice)
I will have done it
She would have told me
They may have understood it
We should have appreciated it
They will have marked them
It will have been done
I would have been told
It may have been understood
It should have been appreciated
They will have been marked
Passive VoicePassive Voice
Active voice: Passive voice:
Perfect
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11. Verbs III
Passive Voice
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Resource created as per request by my lovely learners
Topic: Parts of Speech (Verbs III)
Audience: English language learners
Published by: G&R Languages – December, 2018 Images: courtesy of ClipArt. Photos: courtesy of ClipArt and RZP
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