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    The document discusses active and passive voice in the simple past tense. Active sentences have the subject followed by the past tense verb and object, while passive sentences have the object followed by "was/were" and the past participle verb plus "by" and the subject. For example, in the simple past "The children broke the window" is active voice while "The window was broken" is passive voice.

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    The document discusses active and passive voice in the simple past tense. Active sentences have the subject followed by the past tense verb and object, while passive sentences have the object followed by "was/were" and the past participle verb plus "by" and the subject. For example, in the simple past "The children broke the window" is active voice while "The window was broken" is passive voice.

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    The document discusses active and passive voice in the simple past tense. Active sentences have the subject followed by the past tense verb and object, while passive sentences have the object followed by "was/were" and the past participle verb plus "by" and the subject. For example, in the simple past "The children broke the window" is active voice while "The window was broken" is passive voice.

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    Luisa washed the dishes yesterday.

    The dishes were washed by Luisa.


    Active and Passive
    Voice Simple past
    tense.

     Active sentences in the simple past tense have the following structure:
    Subject + past tense form of the verb + object
     Passive sentences in the simple past tense have the following structure:
    Object of the active sentence + was/were + past participle form of the verb
    + by + subject of the active sentence.
    Active Voice Passive Voice
     The children broke the window  The window was broken.
    Use of passive voice in
    simple past.

    As you remember we use the simple


    past to express an action that happend
    once or repeatedly in the past.

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