The passive voice is a grammatical construction where the subject receives the action rather than performs it. In the passive, the doer or subject of the action is either unknown or unimportant. Some key characteristics of the passive voice are that it uses forms of the verb "to be" along with the past participle of the main verb, and it often omits the agent or doer of the action. The passive voice is commonly used when the agent is unknown or unimportant to the topic being discussed.

1. The Passive
What is the passive mode? What is the active mode?
The doer or subject receives the
action
The doer or
subject does the
action
New bridges are built every year.
(Can bridges build? No!)
People build
bridges
Form:subj. "be" Past participle
Present simple
English ____ spoken People____English
Hotdogs ____ eaten in the U.S. People___ hotdogs
Past simple
The car ____ stolen Someone__the car
The
photos
____ taken on holiday. Someone ____the
photos on holiday.
We use the passive when the doer of the action is not
important or when we don't know who it is. When we
want to include who does the action , we use the
preposition "by".
Romeo and Juliet was ________ by Shakespeare.