This document provides information on English verb tenses and how to transform sentences from active to passive voice. It lists the main English tenses including present simple, present continuous, past simple, past continuous, present perfect, past perfect, be going to, will, can-could-may-might-must-should-would, used to, and have to. Examples are given showing how to identify the tense of an active sentence and use charts to transform it into the passive voice by changing the verb form and word order.

2. TENSES
• PRESENT SIMPLE  is/are + Past Participle
• PRESENT CONTINUOUS  is/are + being + Past
Participle
• PAST SIMPLE  was/were + Past Participle
• PAST CONTINUOUS  was/were + being + Past
Participle

3. • PRESENT PERFECT  have/has + been + Past
Participle
• PAST PERFECT  had + been + Past Participle
• BE GOING TO  is/are going to + be + Past Participle

4. • WILL  will + be + Past Participle
• CAN-COULD-MAY-MIGHT-MUST-SHOULD-WOULD 
Can-could-may-might-must-should-would + be + Past
Participle
• USED TO  used to + be + Past Participle
• HAVE TO  have to + be + Past Participle

5. EXAMPLE
i clean my room.
My room is cleaned by me.
STEPS PASSIVE VOICE TRANSFORMATION
1. Identify the tense.
2. Identify words that come right after the verb
3. Use the chart.

6. EXCERCISES
• Pamela is going to buy some bread for making Joel a
sandwich.
 Some Bread is going to be bought by Pamela for
making Joel a sandwich.
• Daniela and ger family usually put up the Christmas tree
in the late November.
 The christmas tree is usually put up by Daniela and her
family in late November