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Look at these examples to see how the passive voice is used.

A lot of olive oil is produced in Italy.
This book was written by Angela Davis.
The suspect will be released tomorrow.
This product has not been tested on animals.

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Grammar explanation

We use the passive voice to change the focus of the sentence.

My bike was stolen. (passive - focus on my bike)
Someone stole my bike. (active - focus on someone)

We often use the passive:

when we prefer not to mention who or what does the action (for example, it's not known, it's obvious or we don't want to say)

so that we can start a sentence with the most important or most logical information

in more formal or scientific writing.

How we make the passive

We make the passive using the verb be + past participle. We start the sentence with the object.

It is not always necessary to add who or what did the action.

Only the form of be changes to make the tense. The past participle stays the same. Here are examples of the passive in its most common tenses.

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Exercises Explanation Downloads

Present and past simple passive: 'be' + past participle

Exercise 1

Choose the correct present and past simple passive or active forms to complete the following text

Present and past simple passive - grammar chart

Active sentences vs passive sentences

When A does B, we have two possible ways of talking about it: active or passive. In active sentences A is the subject (before the verb). In passive sentences B is the subject. Check the following examples:

Present simple

Somebody cleans the classroom every day. (Active)

The classroom is cleaned every day. (Passive)

Past simple

Somebody cleaned the classroom yesterday. (Active)

The classroom was cleaned yesterday. (Passive)

As you can see, the object of an active sentence is the subject of a passive sentence. In an active sentence, the subject is the 'doer' of the action and the object is the 'receiver' of the action. And in a passive sentence, the subject is the receiver of the action, NOT the doer. Compare:

A) Somebody broke the window.

B) The window was broken (by someone).

In sentence A, 'somebody' is the doer of the breaking, and in sentence B, 'the window' is the receiver of the breaking.

When do we use the passive?

The passive is more formal than the active and it is more common in written language. We often use the passive when we don't know, when it is obvious, or when we don't want so say who or what is responsible for the action.

Passive voice + by

We can use by to say who or what is responsible for the action.

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