The doer of the action can be introduced using “by” or omitted.ġ. Let’s just apply the formulae to our sentence In order to make this sentence passive, we need to place the object in the first place, to use the auxiliary to be in the tense the active sentence is in and the verb in the past participle. You can attend our online individual and group private lessons or learn English for free with our blog posts where you will find loads of grammar and vocabulary lessons, as well as exercises and quizzes. The English teachers at My Lingua Academy are happy to help you improve your English. Well, there are a few reasons for using passive or active sentences in speaking or writing but let’s look at the active and passive sentence structures first. What does it mean? Why would anybody use it? It’s so complicated. What is the difference between them? Word order in a passive sentence is subject + verb + object (the subject is performing an action over an object), while in a passive sentence object “pretends” to be a subject + to be + past participle the doer of the action (agent) is omitted in most cases. We are having an interesting grammar lesson today – passive voice.ĭo you know what passive is? Well, sentences can be active and passive.
