was killed," or "The boy was kid..." /> Passive Voice - English Grammar

Passive Voice

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Passive Voice

Sometimes we say things like, "My dog was killed," or "The boy was kidnapped." But who killed my dog? Who kidnapped the boy? We aren’t sure. That’s why we use the passive voice, which emphasizes the person or thing an action was done to, not the one who did the action.

Passive voice is normally formed with to be + a past participle, as in, "Chris was shot yesterday." We can use the passive voice in any tense by changing the form of to be. For instance, we can say, "My bike was stolen" (past tense) or, "My bike is being stolen!" (present progressive tense).

When we want to include the one who performed the action in a passive voice sentence, we use the phrase "by..." after the verb. For instance, "Danny will be picked up by his mother today."

Sometimes, the verb to get is substituted for to be, as in "My cat got run over last night."

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07:15 AM Nov 01 2009 | 回复

jeesong

jeesong

Thailand

thanks a lot

11:50 PM Oct 29 2009 | 回复

prettymind

Saudi Arabia

It's amazing lesson

 - The room was cleaned

-The dishes were washed

The girls were gone

Thanks E-baby 

11:56 AM Oct 27 2009 | 回复

s id

Saudi Arabia

 nice gramer 

  i want more information about passive voice.

  thanks  e baby

12:07 AM Oct 25 2009 | 回复

Tempest

Tempest

Syrian Arab Republic

i'm usderstanding passivr voice

thank's alot

;)

06:53 AM May 24 2009 | 回复

Clavo

Colombia

hi, for me passive voice is very difficult!!!!Surprised

10:10 AM Apr 02 2009 | 回复

nedolom

Palestinian Territory, Occupied

oohhh  we havent alot info of passive 

we have many type of it   !!!!   i hope 2 write it :s

cuz i wanna learn it  

anyway  thhx 4 this afew info

 

08:35 PM Mar 11 2009 | 回复

The Chosen One

Azerbaijan

Here haven't enough information about Passive Voice. And no information about Question forms of Passive Voice. If it'd be better If you add a more information about… Anyway thanks EB for  this opportunity)

01:15 PM Feb 11 2009 | 回复

zeus2006

zeus2006

Turkey

These are also Passive:

-John is helped by Mary              (Simple Present)

-John is being helped by Mary      (Present Progressive)

-John hes been helped by Mary    (Present Perfect)

-John was helped by Mary             (Simple Past)

-John was beeing helped by Mary  (Past Progressive)

-John had been helped by Mary     (Past Perfect)

-John will be helped by Mary           (Simple Future)

-John is going to be helped by Mary ( go going to)

-John will have been helped by Mary (Future Perfect)

01:00 PM Feb 11 2009 | 回复

zeus2006

zeus2006

Turkey

This is also passive Voice, and sometimes ''who'' is very important like this example :)

 ''Massage from Forever was written by Marlo Morgan''

By the way that book which name is Massage from Forever is very very nice and interesting(about Australian Aborigines). I recommend you all to read.