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The passive

Use the passive to focus on the action or activity, rather than the people doing the action. If you don‟t
knowwhich person, the only option is to use the passive. Sometimes you want to say who did the
action in a sentence and then you use by + the person at the end of the sentence.
The present simple passive
● You form the present simple passive with am/is/are + past participle.
● Use the present simple passive for facts, regular activities or processes that are always the same:
Cotton clothes are made in Egypt.
The past simple passive
● You form the past simple passive with was/were + past participle.
● You use the past simple passive for actions, activities and processes that were completed in the
past andaren‟t happening now:
The competition was stopped because of a technical
problem. Ali and Yassar were awarded a prize by a teacher
at their school.
The passive with will and modal verbs
● You use will/modal verb + be + past participle to form the passive with will and modal verbs:
I will be given some more responsibility at work next
month.All of these sports can be played at your local
sports centre.
I may be awarded a scholarship for university if I do well in my exams.
The passive infinitive
● The passive infinitive is a passive form of verbs which are always followed by to, for example have
to, has to, need to, etc.
● You form the passive infinitive with to be + past participle:
All of these reports have to be written before we can go home.
The present perfect passive
You use have/has been + past participle to form the present perfect passive.
You use the present perfect passive to talk about recent actions and events that have
results.New schools have been built recently.
The past perfect passive
You use had + been + past participle to form the past perfect passive.
You use the past perfect passive to talk about actions that happened before other actions in the
past.After the problem had been discussed, we reached a reasonable solution.

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