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The document provides information and exercises on the passive voice in English grammar. It defines the passive voice and discusses its formation and usage. It covers the passive voice in all tenses and includes notes on the difference between the simple and continuous forms. A variety of exercises are provided in PDF format for students to practice identifying and forming the passive voice.

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The document provides information and exercises on the passive voice in English grammar. It defines the passive voice and discusses its formation and usage. It covers the passive voice in all tenses and includes notes on the difference between the simple and continuous forms. A variety of exercises are provided in PDF format for students to practice identifying and forming the passive voice.

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Active and passive voice PDF worksheets Online exercises Grammar rules PDF English grammar books PDF PDF book 1: English grammar exercises PDF PDF book 2: English grammar rules PDF PDF worksheets + online exercises Learn and practise passive forms in all tenses. Present simple passive exercises Present continuous passive exercises
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Passive voice exercise 2 (choose) A multiple choice test. Passive voice exercise 3 (all forms) Make passive sentences with jumbled words. Passive voice questions Complete passive voice questions. Passive voice crime story Part 1: Complete a crime story. Part 2: Ask questions about a bank robbery. Active to passive voice (all tenses) Change the active
voice to passive voice. Active to passive voice (rewrite) Rewrite sentences in the passive. Passive voice prepositions (by/with) Complete sentences with prepositions by or with. Passive voice with two objects Rewrite sentences with direct and indirect objects. Grammar rules PDF: Passive voice rules PDF Grammar rules with examples to download for
free. English grammar PDF All PDF rules with examples to download for free. Passive voice The passive voice is used in the following tenses.

Present simple and continuous passive: The car is repaired.


The car is being repaired. Past simple and continuous passive: The car was repaired. The car was being repaired. Present perfect passive: The car has just been repaired. Past perfect passive: The car had been repaired. Future simple passive: The car will be repaired. Future perfect passive: The car will have been repaired. Present and perfect
conditional passive: The car would be repaired. The car would have been repaired.

Form The passive voice in English is formed with the verb to be and the past participle, which is different for regular verbs (translated, mended) and irregular verbs (taken, thrown). Statement: The letter is written. This shop has been opened. It will be done in time. Question: Is the letter written? Has the shop been opened? Will it be done in time?
Negative: The letter is not written. The shop has not been opened. It will not be done in time. The continuous is as follows. (Other continuous tenses are normally used in the active voice, not in the passive.) Present: A new house is being built in our street. Past: A new house was being built in our street. In all the examples above the agent is not
mentioned. We do not know who has written the letter or opened the shop. Similarly: Flowers were planted in the garden.

(We do not know who did it). If we want to say who planted the flowers we mention the agent at the end of the sentence and use the preposition by. The flowers were planted by my mother. But: The window was smashed with a stone. (The stone is not the agent. We do not know who smashed the window. We only know how he or she did it).
Direct and indirect objects If there are both direct and indirect objects in the active voice (My friend sent me a letter), the indirect object (my friend), not the direct object (a letter), usually becomes the subject in the passive voice. Active: My friend sent me a letter. Passive: I was sent a letter by my friend.
(This form is more natural in English than A letter was sent to me by my friend.) Similarly: They offer Trevor a place. - Trevor is offered a place. The infinitive without to In the active voice some verbs are followed by the bare infinitive (infinitive without to). In the passive form we use most such verbs with the infinitive with to. Active: We saw them
come. She made him do it. Passive: They were seen to come. He was made to do it. But: They let us go. - We were let go. Use The passive is used: 1. If the action is more important then the agent. A demonstration has been held. This theatre was built in 1868. The important thing is what happened, not who did it. 2. If the agent is not known. He was
offered a job. (Someone offered him the job.) They are supposed to be good students. (Some teachers suppose that.) The difference in meaning between the simple and continuous A new house is built in our street. (The house is finished.) A new house is being built in our street. (They are building it these days, it is not finished.) I was being introduced
to Mrs. Jones when her husband arrived. (Her husband arrived in the middle of the introduction.) When her husband arrived I was introduced to Mrs.
Jones. (Her husband arrived first and then she introduced me.) Notes This form is typical of an impersonal and formal style, that is why you can often find it in public notices, announcements, instructions or scientific articles. English is spoken in this shop.
Visitors are not allowed to smoke. The seal must be removed. In a less formal style the active voice is more usual. English is spoken in this shop. - We speak English in this shop. He was seen in Dover. - They saw him in Dover. The seal must be removed. - You must remove the seal. In the English language this form is more frequent than in many other
languages. Moreover, you can find some stuctures in English which are not possible in some languages. I am told that you are going to have a baby. It is thought that the crises will end soon.

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