The Passive Voice

Passive Voice. La Voz Pasiva

La voz pasiva se usa cuando se quiere resaltar la persona, animal o cosa en la que recae la acción del verbo principal en vez de resaltar el sujeto o agente de la acción verbal. A veces no se sabe, es obvio, no es relevante o no se quiere decir el sujeto de la acción del verbo. La voz pasiva se usa mucho en textos periodísticos, científicos y más tipos y en el registro formal con más frecuencia.

The passive voice is used when we want to emphasize the person, animal or thing that receives the action of the main verb instead of focusing the attention on the subject or agent of the action of the verb. It is very used in journalist and scientific texts as well as other types and formal rather than colloquial language.

We always change the Subject to the end of the sentence preceded “by”+ Noun or personal pronoun object and the Direct or Indirect Object becomes the Subject Recipient of the action of the verb. Moreover we change the verb into passive using the verb To Be and the main verb in the Past Participle form, but the tense of the active sentence is never changed.

Siempre cambiamos el sujeto al final de la frase precedido por “by + Nombre o pronombre personal objeto” y el objeto directo o indirecto llega a ser Sujeto Paciente de la acción del verbo. Además cambiamos el verbo activo a pasivo usando el verbo Ser o Estar en inglés y el Participio de Pasado del verbo principal, pero el tiempo verbal de la oración activa no cambia en la voz pasivo, esto es si es presente, pasado o futuro en la voz pasiva seguirá siéndolo.

Example: The child gives the gifts(Direct Object) to her/the lady.(Indirect Object)

Subject Recipient Direct Object: The gifts are given (Passive Verb) to the lady (IO) by the boy.

Subject Recipient Indirect Object: The lady is given (Passive Verb) the gifts (DO) by the boy.

Present Simple Active	Present Simple Passive
Write / writes	Be written
Past Simple Active	Past Simple Passive
Wrote	Was/were written
Present Continuous Active	Present Continuous Passive
Is/ are writing	Is / are being written
Past Continuous Active	Past Continuous Passive
Was /were writing	Was/ were being written
Future Immediate Active	Future Immediate Passive
Is going to write	Is going to be made
Future Simple Active	Future Simple Passive
Will write	Will be written
Present Perfect Active	Present Perfect Passive
Has written	Has been written
Future Perfect Active	Future Perfect Passive
Will have written	Will have been written
Future Perfect Continuous Active	Future Perfect Continuous Passive
Will have been writing	Will have been being written
Modals in Present tenses Active	Modals in Present tenses Passive
Can/may//will/ shall write	Could/ might/ would /should be written

Sometimes the Verb “get” can replace the verb BE in the passive verb form:

Example: That building in Madison Square got overhauled (mejorado).

Besides the verb “need” can also be used with a passive sense to signify when something has to be done without saying who should do it.

Example: The car needs to be mended (reparado).

Reporting verbs such as say, consider, believe, think, assume, suppose, report are often said in news broadcasts or newspaper articles to report widely held views, which may or may not have been proven. There are two forms:

It is thought that the child knew his father-------------The child is thought to have known his father

It is said that the villagers were afraid of machines--The villagers are said to be afraid of machines

 https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/active-and-passive-voice

https://www.englishgrammar.org/active-passive-voice-exercise-8/

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/passive-exercises.html