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Passive Voice. 1 the Passive is used when the person who carries out the action is unknown, unimportant or obvious from the context
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1 The Passive is used when the person who carries out the action is unknown, unimportant or obvious from the context.
Mrs Archer’s ruby ring was stolen from her house last night.
2 When the action itself is more important than the person who carries it out,
as in news headlines, newspaper articles, formal notices, instructions, etc.
The teenagers were seriously injured in a car accident last night.
3 When we want to make statements more polite.
My new blouse is ruined. (More polite than saying, ‘You’ve ruined my
new blouse. ’)
Note: The Passive is used more often in written English than in spoken
English.
| Active | Passive | |
| Present Simple | it makes | it is made |
| Present Continuous | it is making | it is being made |
| Present Perfect | it has made | it has been made |
| Past Simple | it made | it was made |
| Past Continuous | it was making | it was being made |
| Past Perfect | it will make | it had been made |
| Future Simple | it will make | it will be made |
| infinitive forms | make to make | be made to be made |
| -ing form | making | being made |
Personal / Impersonal passive constructions
The verbs think, believe, say report, know, expect, consider, understand, etc. are used in the following passive patterns in personal and impersonal constructions:
| Active: | People say that he has lost his job. |
| Passive: | It is said (that) he has lost his job. (impersonal construction) He is said to have lost his job. (personal construction) |
| Active | People know that he works hard. |
| Passive | It is known (that) he works hard. He is known to work hard. |
| Active | People think he left the country last night. |
| Passive | It is thought (that) he left the country last night. |
| He is thought to have left the country last night. |
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