Passive Voice

Passive Voice

Grammatical construction used to emphasize the action or the receiver of the action rather than the doer. Formed by using a form of the verb "to be" (such as **"is", "am", "are", "was", "were", "has been", "have been", "had been"**) followed by the past participle form of the main verb.

Form: Active Voice: Subject + V + Object Passive Voice: =Object + form of TO BE + V3 + (by + Subject)=

For example: Active: The cat chased the mouse. Passive: The mouse was chased by the cat.

Active: The chef bakes the cake. Passive: The cake is baked by the chef.

=Form=

Tense	"To be"	Passive Voice
Present Simple	am, is, are	is (are) + V3
Present Continuous	am being, is being, are being	is (are) being + V3
Present Perfect	have been, has been	has (have) been + V3
Past Simple	was, were	was (were) + V3
Past Continuous	was being, were being	was (were) being + V3
Past Perfect	had been	had been + V3
Future Simple	will be	will be + V3
Future Perfect	will have been	will have been + V3
Conditional I	would be	would be + V3
Conditional II	would have been	would have been + V3

=Examples=

Tense	Active Voice	Passive Voice
Present Simple	The chef bakes the cake.	The cake is baked by the chef.
Present Continuous	The chef is baking the cake.	The cake is being baked by the chef.
Present Perfect	The chef has baked the cake.	The cake has been baked by the chef.
Past Simple	The chef baked the cake.	The cake was baked by the chef.
Past Continuous	The chef was baking the cake.	The cake was being baked by the chef.
Past Perfect	The chef had baked the cake.	The cake had been baked by the chef.
Future Simple	The chef will bake the cake.	The cake will be baked by the chef.
Future Perfect	The chef will have baked the cake.	The cake will have been baked by the chef.
Conditional I	The chef would bake the cake.	The cake would be baked by the chef.
Conditional II	The chef would have baked the cake.	The cake would have been baked by the chef.