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Passive Voice / Causative Form - Coggle Diagram
Passive Voice / Causative Form
Passive Voice
Active Voice
Present Simple
They are serving dinner now.
Past Simple
They served dinner.
Past Continuous
They were serving dinner
Present Perfect
They have served dinner.
Past Perfect
They had served dinner.
Future Perfect
They will have served dinner.
Present infinitive
They serve dinner at 6:00.
Perfect infinitive
They should have served dinner.
·ing form
He likes people serving his dinner.
Perfect ·ing form
Having served dinner, .. .
Passive Voice
Dinner is served at 6:00.
Dinner is being served now.
Dinner was served.
Dinner was being served.
Dinner has been served.
Dinner had been served.
Dinner will have been served.
Dinner should be served.
Dinner should have been served.
He likes his dinner being served.
Dinner having been served, .. .
Changing from Active into Passive
To change a sentence from active into the passive:
• Only transitive verbs (verbs followed by an object) can be changed into the passive:
We use by + agent to say who or what carries out the action. We use with + instrument /
material / ingredient to say what the agent used to carry out the action.
With verbs which take two objects such as bring, allow, award, bring, buy, feed, give,
grant, hand, lend, offer, owe, pass, post, promise, read, send, show, take, tell, throw and
write, it is more usual to begin the passive sentence with the person. We can make two
different passive sentences.