PASSIVE

TENSE ACTIVE PASSIVE (be + past participle)

PRESENT SIMPLE She types the letters. The letters are typed

PRESENT CONTINUOUS She is typing the letters The letters are being typed

PRESENT PERFECT She has typed the letters The letters has been typed
SIMPLE

PAST SIMPLE She typed the letters The letters were typed

PAST CONTINUOUS She was typing the letters The letters were being typed

PAST PERFECT SIMPLE Sha had typed the letters The letters had been typed

FUTURE SIMPLE She will type the letters The letters will be typed

FUTURE PERFECT She will have typed the letters The letters will have been typed
SIMPLE
The letters are going to be typed
BE GOING TO She is going to type the letters
The letters have to / can be typed

MODALS / SEMI- She has to / can type the

MODALS letters.

Note: i. The following tenses do not have a passive form: Present Perfect
Continuous, Past Perfect Continuous, Future Continuous and Future Perfect
Continuous.

ii. The agent (doer) is not mentioned when it is obvious, unimportant or

unknown.
Spanich is spoken in South Anmerica, too.
His brother was killed in an earthquake.

iii. By + the agent is used

a. when it is importan to know who does the action.

Radium was discoverd by Marie Curie.
b. to refer to a method or course of action (by + verb+ ing)
Insect can be destroyed by spraying with D.D.T.