Passive with tenses

We use passive voice with:

Simple present
Simple past

The form of present simple in passive

sentence
Object

+
+Be (am, is,

are)
To make a present simple sentence
with passive voice:
1_we put the object first.
2_we put the verb be according to the
object that we have.
3_we put the past participle.
4_we dont put the agent which is the
subject because its not necessary,
unknown or obvious.

Past
participle

For example
_People make pasta in Italy. (Simple present or active
sentence)

_Pasta is made in Italy (by people). (Simple present with

passive voice)
Its not important to say that

The form of simple past in passive sentence

Object

+ Be (was,+

were)

Past
participle

To make a simple past sentence with

passive voice:
1_we put the object first.
2_we put the verb be (was, were)
according to the object that we have.
3_we put the past participle.
4_we dont put the agent which is the
subject because its not necessary,
unknown or obvious.

For example
_They sold the car yesterday. (Simple past or active
sentence)

_The car was sold yesterday (by them). (Simple past with
passive sentence)
Its not important to
say that.