What Is a Passive Sentence?
In a passive sentence,
the subject does not perform the action in the sentence. In fact,
the action is
performed on it
How to Make passive ?
Examples :
¢ACTIVE : (a) Mary helped the boy
¢PASSIVE :
(b) The boy was helped by Mary
¢ACTIVE : (c) An accident Happened
¢PASSIVE
: (d) none
DESCRIPTION
¢Form of the
passive : be + past participle
¢In the
passive, the object of an active verb becomes the subject of the passive verb:
“the boy” in (a)
becomes the subject of the passive verb in (b). (a) and (b)
have the same meaning
¢Only transitive verb (verb that are followed by
an object) are used in the passive. It’s not possible to
use verbs such as
happen, sleep, come and seem (intrasitive verb) in the passive.
Forms Active to Passive
¢[simple present] – Mary
helps John : John is helped by Mary
¢[present progressive] –
Mary is helping John : John is being
helped by Mary
¢[simple past] – Mary
helped John : John was
helped Mary
¢[present perfet] – Mary
has helped John : John has been helped by Mary
¢[Past Progressive] –
Mary was helping John : John was being helped by Mary
¢[past perfect] – Mary
had helped John : John had been helped by Mary
¢[simple future] – Mary
will help John : John will be helped by Mary
¢[be going to] Mary is
going to help John : John is going to
be helped by Mary
¢[future perfect] – Mary
will have helped John : John will have
been helped by
Mary
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