Sunday, May 5, 2013

How to Form the Passive Voice


The Passive Voice is formed with the auxiliary verb 'to be' (in the appropriate verb tense) + the past participle of the main verb in the active sentence.  The object from the active sentence becomes the subject and the subject from the active sentence adds 'by' and becomes the agent.

               (subject) Students (verb) learn (object) English.

               (subject) English (verb) is learned *(agent) by students.

*Remember that the agent is frequently omitted:

                (subject) English (verb) is learned.



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