Understanding when to use passive voice can make all the difference in your writing. Tense. Formula. Example Sentence. Past Simple. Past Continuous. was/were Future perfect tense active and passive voice. Example: The patient will have taken medicine. Medicine will have been taken by the patient. She will have read this book. We shall have done our home-task. She will not have abused me. He will not have taken the test. You will not have learnt the lesson. Future. Future Simple. Be Going To: We are going to the movies tonight. Shall: You will help your grandmother later. Future Progressive (Continuous) Present Simple and Present Progressive with Future Meaning: Sam will be coming home any minute. Present Perfect Continuous Tense Can’t be used in the passive voice Sentences. Past Tense. Past Indefinite Tense. She wrote a story. A story was written by her. She scolded him. He was scolded by her. I knew you. You were known to me. Past Continuous Tense. She was making a noise. A noise was being made by her. He was driving a car . Passive voice is form by using TO BE (in the right tense) + V3 (Past Participle) from of verb. We have already looked at how passive voice is used in simple tenses, i.e. Present Simple and Past Simple. These are the forms you will need most often, so make sure you know how to use them. Now we shall see an example of simple past tense passive voice -. Active: She drew a picture yesterday. (drew- past form of draw) Above sentence is in the form-. Subject + past tense of ‘draw’ + object. Passive: A picture was drawn by her yesterday. (drawn – past participle of draw) Passive voice of this sentence is in the form-. It is used to express a continued or. ongoing action in past, an ongoing action which occurred in past and. completed at some point in past. It expresses an ongoing nature of an. action in past. The passive form of the past continuous tense consists of was or were. + being + the past participle of the verb. This list contains all the irregular verbs of the English language. Each entry includes the base or bare infinitive first, followed by the simple past (V2) form and the past participle (V3) form. Taking some time to make sentences using each irregular verb form will help you to use these verbs correctly when speaking and writing. Note: The following tenses cannot be changed in passive voice: Present Perfect Continuous Tense; Past Perfect Continuous Tense; Future Continuous Tense; Future Perfect Continuous Tense. Exercise: Convert the following sentences into passive voice: I will deposit the money. Mark has traveled the world. I have seen him. They cancelled the In passive voice, the sentence is interpreted from the perspective of the one who experiences the action, not the one who does it. To form present continuous tense passive sentences, we follow these steps: Start with an object. Add “am/is/are” + “being”. Use the past participle (third form) of the verb as the main verb. 59KG.