1. HOW TO MAKE PASSIVE VOICE
By Cristian Frieros Recio

2. What’s the passive voice?
It is used to give more emphasis to the action itself
than to the one who does it.

3. When do we use it?
• When we want to change the focus of the sentence.
• When who or what causes the action is unknown or
unimportant or obvious or 'people in general‘.
• In factual or scientific writing.
• In formal writing instead of using someone/ people/
they (these can be used in speaking or informal
writing).
• In order to put the new information at the end of the
sentence to improve style.
• When the subject is very long.

4. How do we use it?
• Present:
– Present Simple: Subject + am/is/are + Past
Participle.
– Present Continuous: Subject + am/is/are being +
Past Participle.
– Present Perfect: Subject + has/have been + Past
Participle.
– Present Perfect Continuous: Subject + has/have
being + Past Participle.

5. How do we use it?
Past:
– Past Simple: Subject + was/were + Past Participle.
– Past Continuous: Subject + was/were being + Past
Participle.
– Past Perfect: Subject + had been + Past Participle.
– Past Perfect Continuous: Subject + had been being
+ Past participle.

6. How do we use it?
• Future:
– Future Simple: Subject + Will be + Past Participle.
– Future perfect: Subject + Will has/have been +
Past Participle.

7. How do we use it?
• Negative:
– Am -> Am not.
– Is -> Isn’t.
– Are -> Aren’t.
– Was -> Wasn’t.
– Were -> Weren’t.
– Have -> Haven’t.
– Has -> Hasn’t.
– Had -> Hadn’t.
– Will -> Wont.

8. How do we use it?
• Interrogative:
– Instead of “Subject + Be(In the proper tense) +
Past Participle”.
It is “Be(In the proper tense) + Subject + Past
Participle”.
• Answers to the questions:
– They’ve to be short answers like:
Yes, it is. / No, It isn’t. / Yes, they are. / No, they
aren’t…. And so on.

9. How do we use it?
• Past Participle is made using the termination “–ed”
with the regular verbs and the “third column” with
the irregular verbs.
– Play – Played.
– Begin – Began – Begun(This one).

10. How do we use it?
• Verbs with two objects:
Some verbs that have two objects can make two
different active sentences, and so two different
passive sentences too.
Active:
– He gave me the book. / He gave the book to me.
You can choose either of the two objects to be
the subject of the passive sentence.
• Passive:
– I was given the book (by him)./ The book was
given to me (by him).

11. Active to Passive
To make a properly passive form, you need to
“reverse” the object and the subject of the active
form. I mean, The object of the active becomes
Subject in the passive.

12. Examples
• The lunch is made everyday by my mother.
• The homework was made by myself.
• Extraterrestrial life hasn’t been discovered yet.
• The dishes had been done by my brother.
• The course will be cured by the scientists.
• This PowerPoint is going to be sent any soon.

13. Credits.
Thank you all for watching it and I really hope you
enjoy reading this as much as I’ve done it making it.
Regards.