Passive Voice
used with all tenses
used when it's not important to say who did the action
formed by the verb to BE + past participle
used with particular verbs that have a double object in the active form
but sometimes we need to express the agent
by + agent
we must conjugate the verb to BE, whereas the past participle never changes
give
tell
say
Future Continuous
with modal verbs
Past Perfect
Present Simple
to be going to future
Simple Past
Present Perfect
Present Continuous
-ed for regular verbs
3rd column for irregular verbs
we can find the progressive form of the tense we have to use; in that case we must remember that:
- we need to conjugate the verb to BE (because we are expressing the passive form)
- to make the progressive form we need to add BEING
- never forget the past participle
In Italian we do not have this form because we tend to say for instance "stanno costruendo un ponte".
In English it sounds like "a bridge is being built"
I was given a present last Sunday
They are said to be guilty
They are told to do their homework regularly