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    The document discusses the active and passive voice and how to change sentences between the two forms. It provides examples of sentences in the simple present, present continuous, and present perfect tense in both active and passive voice. When changing to passive voice, the object of the active sentence becomes the subject, the verb changes to some form of "to be" plus the past participle, and the original subject moves to an optional prepositional phrase introduced with "by".

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    The document discusses the active and passive voice and how to change sentences between the two forms. It provides examples of sentences in the simple present, present continuous, and present perfect tense in both active and passive voice. When changing to passive voice, the object of the active sentence becomes the subject, the verb changes to some form of "to be" plus the past participle, and the original subject moves to an optional prepositional phrase introduced with "by".

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    Passive Voice Tenses

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    The document discusses the active and passive voice and how to change sentences between the two forms. It provides examples of sentences in the simple present, present continuous, and present perfect tense in both active and passive voice. When changing to passive voice, the object of the active sentence becomes the subject, the verb changes to some form of "to be" plus the past participle, and the original subject moves to an optional prepositional phrase introduced with "by".

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    Tense

    Active

    Passive

    Simple Present

    Once a week, Tom cleans the house.

    Once a week, the house is cleaned by Tom.

    Present Continuous

    Right now, Sarah is writing the letter.

    Right now, the letter is being written by Sarah

    Present Perfect

    Many tourists have visited that castle.

    That castle has been visited by many tourists.

    When rewriting active sentences in passive voice, note the following:

    the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence

    the finite form of the verb is changed (to be + past participle)

    the subject of the active sentence becomes the object of the passive sentence (or is dropped)

    Tense

    Simple Present

    Subject

    Active:

    Passive:

    Present Perfect

    Active:

    Passive:

    Rita

    A letter

    Rita

    A letter

    Verb

    Object

    writes

    a letter.

    is written

    by Rita.

    has written

    a letter.

    has been written

    by Rita.

    Simple present

    The house

    is

    cleaned

    every day.

    Present continuous

    The house

    is being

    cleaned

    at the moment.

    Present perfect

    The house

    has been

    cleaned

    since you left.

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