The document discusses the passive voice in English. The passive voice is used when the event is more important than the subject performing the action or to describe a process. The passive voice is formed using the object of the sentence, the appropriate form of the verb "to be", and the past participle of the main verb. Various examples are provided of converting active voice sentences to passive voice sentences in different tenses.

1. The Passive Voice in
English

2. The passive voice
The passive voice is used when the event is more
important that who does it and to describe a process.
This packet was brought two days ago
Is normal to find the passive voice without subject.
The agent (by..) is only used when it includes
important information
He was hated by his own brothers.

3. How is it made?
It is formed with the object, the appropiate tense of
the verb “to be” and the past participle of the verb
that is conjugated.
The most used tense verbs are listed below:
● Simple present
Subject + present “to be” + past participle +by +
subject.
Active Passive
I paint my house My house is painted by me

4. ● Past simple
Subject + past “to be” + past participle +by +
subject.
● Present perfect
Subject + present perfect “to be” + past participle
+by + subject.
Active Passive
I have painted my house My house had been painted by me
Active Passive
I painted my house My house was painted by me

5. ● Past perfect
Subject + past perfect “to be” + past participle +by
+ subject.
● Simple future
Subject + simple future “to be” + past participle
+by + subject.
Active Passive
I had painted my house My house had been painted by me
Active Passive
I will paint my house My house will be paint by me

6. ● Going to future
Suject + to be + goint to + to be + past particicle +
by + subject
● Form of the passive verb of the modal verb
Subject + modal verb + to be +parcicicle + by
+subject
Active Passive
I'm goint to paint my house My house is goint to be painted by
me
Active Passive
I must paint my house My house must be painted by me

7. Converting to passive
(Active sentence) I paint my house
● The sentences start with the object
My house
● Then we write the verb to be in the tense of the sentence
My house is
● then we put the verb in past particle
My House is painted
● After that, if it is necessary, we put the subject converted
in a pronoun using the particle “By”
● My House is painted by me

8. Examples
Active Passive
I cook the meat
My mother bought a bag
They have found a dog in teh park
Someone will be stolen my bike this
night
The nw girld should drive tha van
The meat is cooked by me
A bag was bought by my mother
A dog has been found in the park by
them
My bike will be stolen this night
The van should be driven by the
new girld.