Hi Guys, I got a lot of reply for the last post Direct and Indirect Questions in English in my e-mail. Thanks for those replies. As I said before please leave your comment in the blog. If you can give some more example it will be more useful for our users and now for today we will see about the passive voice.
Compare these two English sentences:
= “The doctor gave me a prescription”
= “I was given a prescription”
In the first sentence, the focus is on ‘the doctor’. In the second sentence, the focus is on ‘I’.
When to use the passive
In the passive sentence above, we can make the object and action (’me’ and ‘gave a prescription’) more important than the subject (’the doctor’).
“My bicycle has been stolen” - I don’t know who has stolen it.
“The lights were left on all night.” (I don’t want to say that you left the lights on.)
“I was given a prescription” - I know that only doctors give prescriptions, so I don’t need to add “by the doctor”.
“He was arrested” I know that the police arrest people, so I don’t need to add “by the police”.
Forming a passive sentence in English
Firstly, you need to make the object into the new subject.
Then you make the verb passive.
Put the verb “to be” into the same tense as the verb in the active subject. For example “gave” is the past simple tense. The past simple form of “to be” is “was” or “were”.
Then add the past participle of the verb. For example “gave” - “given”.
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