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Passive voice in passive voice present perfect - Coggle Diagram
Passive voice in passive voice present perfect
Passive voice
The passive voice is a grammatical structure that is used when you do not want to emphasize who or what performs the action, but rather who or what receives it.
Use of the passive voice
In general, when we speak it is more common to use active sentences. An active sentence is one in which the subject is the one who performs the action. However, we can also use passive sentences. In a passive sentence the subject of the sentence is not who performs the action but who receives it.
How is a passive sentence constructed?
structure
Subject + verb to be + main verb in past participle
The passive sentence is constructed using the verb to be in the corresponding verb tense and the main verb in the past participle; that is, either adding the –ed particle to the verb if it is regular, or looking at the past participle in the list of irregular verbs if the verb is irregular.
sentences (examples)
The boy is picked up by her mother every day
The wall has been painted blue
A lie was told by someone in this room
The stolen money was found by the police
The book was written by his grandmother
passive voice present perfect
In the passive voice what matters is the action and the result of the action rather than who performed the action. It is not important or not known who or what is performing the action.
structure
Subject + form of to be + Past Participle
It is important to note that when rewriting active sentences in passive voice, the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence
use
The present perfect tense is used to say that an action happened at an unspecified time before now.
sentences (examples)
Maria you have made rebozos.
The object (rebozos) of the sentence in the active voice.
becomes the subject of the sentence in the passive voice.
Example: Rebozos have been made (by Maria).
