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sentence rather than subject. This means that the subject is either less important than the action
itself or that we don’t know who or what the subject is.
The passive voice is not a tense in English. Each tense has its own passive voice which is
All of the rules for passive negatives and questions are the same as for the active voice.
ACTIVE VOICE:
A mechanic repairs cars
SUBJEC VERB OBJECT
T
PASSIVE VOICE:
PASSIVE VOICE:
Romeo & Juliet was written by W. Shakespeare
SUBJEC VERB AGENT
T
PRESENT SIMPLE OF THE
PASSIVE VOICE
(VERB TO BE) AM / IS / ARE + PAST PARTICIPLE (3rd column)
Their cars were being fixed while they were in the mall shopping.