33 Passive Verb Forms

The Passive Form expresses the idea of something or someone receiving an action or experiencing a particular event or effect. {See Passive Structure, B1 level}

With tenses of the auxiliary verb to be and the past participle of the main verb we can form Passive Verbs.

With tenses of the auxiliary verb ‘to be’ and the past participle of the main verb we can form Passive verbs. When we use a verb in Passive Form, the subject undergoes the action rather than doing it.

The structure is as follows:
Object + be + verb (past participle) + complement.

TENSE	SUBJECT	AUXILIARY SINGULAR	AUXILIARY PLURAL	PAST PARTICIPLE
Present Simple	The book/ books	is	are	written
Present Perfect	The book/ books	has been	have been	written
Past Simple	The book/ books	was	were	written
Past Perfect	The book/ books	had been	had been	written
Future Simple	The book/ books	will be	will be	written
Future Perfect	The book/ books	will have been	will have been	written
Present Progressive	The book/ books	is being	are being	written
Past Progressive	The book/ books	was being	were being	written

There are some rules while we create a sentence in Passive form:

• To write passive sentences the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of passive sentence;
• The verb is changed from finite form to passive form (to be+ past participle);
• The subject of the active sentence is dropped in passive sentence, or it becomes the object.

• I had been converted into buddhism then I moved to Nepal.
• She must wear helmet in the construction area. > Helmets must be worn in the construction area.
• We completed the project on time. > The project was completed on time.

Passive Verb Forms are used to with Passive forms.

You can see the difference between Active and Passive forms below:

ACTIVE FORM	PASSIVE FORM
We completed the project on time. We: Subject	The project was completed on time. The project: Subject Was completed: Passive verb
She must wear helmet in the construction area. She: Subject	Helmets must be worn in the construction area. Helmets: Subject Be worn: Passive verb

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