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Passive Voice
We only use the passive when we are interested in the object or when we do not know who caused the action.
Example: Appointments are required in such cases.
We can only form a passive sentence from an active sentence when there is an object in the active sentence.

To form a sentence in Passive Voice we need:

Verb to be (am, is, are, was, were, be, been or being)
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Past participle of the verb (required, watched, built, seen, written, made, sent, etc.)

Examples:

Active: Peter builds a house.

Simple Present
Passive: A house is built by Peter.

Active: Peter built a house.

Simple Past
Passive: A house was built by Peter.

Active: Peter has built a house.

Present Perfect
Passive: A house has been built by Peter.

Active: Peter will build a house.

will-future
Passive: A house will be built by Peter.

Active: Peter can build a house.

Modals
Passive: A house can be built by Peter.

Conjugation for the Passive Voice

We can form the passive in any tense. In fact, conjugation of verbs in the passive tense is rather easy, as the
main verb is always in past participle form and the auxiliary verb is always be. To form the required tense, we
conjugate the auxiliary verb.
For instance:
 present simple: It is made
 present continuous: It is being made
 present perfect: It has been made
 past simple: It was made
 past continuous: It was being made
 past perfect: It had been made
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Here are more examples with most of the possible tenses:

infinitive to be washed

simple present It is washed.

past It was washed.

future It will be washed.

conditional It would be washed.

continuous present It is being washed.

past It was being washed.

future It will be being washed.

conditional It would be being washed.

perfect simple present It has been washed.

past It had been washed.

future It will have been washed.

conditional It would have been washed.

perfect continuous present It has been being washed.

past It had been being washed.

future It will have been being washed.

conditional It would have been being washed.

Here you will find some examples of how to form the passive depending on the tense.

tense active passive

Simple Present Mary explains the situation The situation is explained by Mary

Simple Past Mary explained the situation The situation was explained by Mary

Present Perfect Mary has explained the situation The situation has been explained by Mary

Past Perfect Mary had explained the situation The situation had been explained by Mary

will-future Mary will explain the situation The situation will be explained by Mary

Mary is going to explain the situation The situation is going to be explained by Mary at
going to-future
at the meeting the meeting

We are normally not interested in the "doer" of an action in a passive sentence. When we want to mention the
"doer", we use the preposition by. The whole phrase is called by-agent in English.
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More examples of Passive

Tense Subject Verb Object

Simple Present Active: Rita writes a letter.

Passive: A letter is written by Rita.
Simple Past Active: Rita wrote a letter.
Passive: A letter was written by Rita.
Present Perfect Active: Rita has written a letter.
Passive: A letter has been written by Rita.
Future I Active: Rita will write a letter.
Passive: A letter will be written by Rita.
Auxiliary verbs Active: Rita can write a letter.
Passive: A letter can be written by Rita.

Tense Subject Verb Object

Present Active: Rita is writing a letter.

Progressive
Passive: A letter is being written by Rita.
Past Active: Rita was writing a letter.
Progressive
Passive: A letter was being written by Rita.
Past Perfect Active: Rita had written a letter.
Passive: A letter had been written by Rita.
Future II Active: Rita will have written a letter.
Passive: A letter will have been written by Rita.
Conditional I Active: Rita would write a letter.
Passive: A letter would be written by Rita.
Conditional II Active: Rita would have written a letter.
Passive: A letter would have been written by Rita.

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VIDEOS EXPLICATIVOS:
1-Cómo entender la Voz pasiva en Inglés FÁCILMENTE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=080leytixWE

2-La forma más fácil de aprender PASSIVE VOICE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=rBtFCPwDkk8&feature=youtu.be

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More about Passive Voice:

http://www.ef.com/english-resources/english-grammar/passive-voice/