The passive voice is used to emphasize the recipient of an action rather than the performer. It is formed using a form of the verb "to be" plus the past participle of the main verb. Examples of the passive voice include "the house was built in 2016" and "was the house built in 2016?". The passive voice is used when the recipient/object is more important, the performer is unknown, or to emphasize the circumstance of an action like "the road is being repaired". It typically uses "by" to indicate the performer/agent.

1. PASSIVE VOICE
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2. FUNCTIONS OF THE PASSIVE VOICE
• The passive voice is used to show interest in the person or thing that is the object of
an action, instead of the person or thing that performs the action. In other words, the
most important person or thing becomes the subject of the sentence.

3. TRAINING OF THE PASSIVE VOICE
In English, the passive voice is composed of two elements:
the proper form of the verb "to be" + "past participle"

4. EXAMPLE
• Affirmative
• The house was built in 2016
• Negative
• The house wasn’t built in 2016
• Interrogative
• Was the house built in 2016?
• Interrogative negative
• Wasn’t the house built in 2016?

5. HOW IS THE PASSIVE VOICE USED?
• We use the passive voice when:
• we want to make the active object more important
• we do not know the active subject
• Example
• The road is being repaired.

6. .• It is important to note that we always use by to enter the passive object. For example,
observe this sentence:
• She was shot with a cannon.
• Normally we use by to enter the passive object. But the cannon is not the active
subject. The cannon did not shoot at him. She was shot by someone with a cannon. In
the passive voice would be "Somebody shot her with a cannon". The weapon is the
instrument. Someone is the agent or performer of the action.