Passive Voice
Passive Voice
Passive Voice
1.que es la pasiva
3.forma de la pasiva
Passive
Passive voice is used when the focus is on the action. It is not important or not
known, however, who or what is performing the action.
o The Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci. (We are more
interested in the painting than the artist in this sentence)
o The form can be obtained from the post office (people in general).
o The chemical is placed in a test tube and the data entered into the
computer.
o Three books are used regularly in the class. The books were
written by Dr. Bell. ('Dr. Bell wrote the books' sound clumsy)
o I was surprised by how well the students did in the test. (More
natural than: 'how well the students did in the test surprised me')
Form of Passive
Subject + finite form of to be + Past Participle (3rd column of irregular verbs)