This
Everyday
Grammar
is
all
about
the
passive
voice
.
____________________
passive
is
a
____________________
form
in
which
the
subject
receives
the
action
of
the
verb
.
For
example
,
"
I
was
born
on
a
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.
"
Most
sentences
in
English
follow
the
subject
-
verb
-
object
pattern
known
as
the
active
voice
.
For
example
,
"
I
love
you
.
"
In
this
example
the
subject
is
"
I
,
"
the
verb
is
"
love
"
and
the
object
is
"
____________________
.
"
The
subject
performs
the
action
of
the
verb
.
But
sometimes
the
subject
is
acted
upon
,
or
receives
the
action
of
the
verb
.
This
is
called
the
passive
voice
.
Imagine
that
someone
stole
your
wallet
,
but
you
do
not
know
who
did
it
.
You
could
say
,
"
My
wallet
was
stolen
.
"
In
this
passive
sentence
,
"
my
wallet
"
is
____________________
subject
,
"
was
stolen
"
is
the
verb
.
There
is
no
____________________
object
-
-
the
wallet
did
not
steal
itself
.
The
speaker
does
not
know
who
stole
the
wallet
.
To
form
the
passive
,
use
a
form
of
the
verb
"
be
"
followed
by
a
past
participle
____________________
form
.
You
can
form
the
passive
in
several
verb
tenses
,
but
the
simple
present
and
simple
past
are
the
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common
.
Only
transitive
verbs
can
be
passive
.
Intransitive
verbs
,
or
verbs
that
cannot
take
a
direct
object
,
cannot
be
passive
.
You
cannot
say
"
I
was
arrived
by
train
"
because
the
intransitive
verb
arrive
cannot
be
followed
by
an
object
.
Most
of
the
time
,
users
should
avoid
the
passive
voice
.
The
passive
voice
can
make
the
speaker
or
writer
seem
indirect
and
weak
.
Which
would
you
rather
hear
:
"
I
love
you
"
(
active
voice
)
or
"
You
are
loved
by
me
"
(
passive
voice
)
?
But
there
are
several
situations
when
____________________
should
use
the
passive
.
The
most
common
reason
to
use
the
passive
is
when
the
actor
is
unknown
or
unimportant
.
For
example
,
"
My
visa
was
processed
,
"
and
"
My
shoes
were
made
in
India
"
and
"
The
car
was
imported
from
Germany
.
"
In
these
examples
,
it
is
not
____________________
to
know
exactly
who
performed
the
action
.
Sometimes
speakers
use
the
passive
even
when
they
know
the
person
who
did
the
action
.
In
this
case
,
use
the
word
by
followed
by
the
actor
.
For
example
,
"
Great
Expectations
was
written
by
Charles
Dickens
.
"
You
could
____________________
use
the
active
voice
:
"
Charles
____________________
wrote
Great
Expectations
.
"
Both
are
correct
.
The
passive
voice
emphasizes
the
book
;
the
active
voice
emphasizes
the
writer
.
In
informal
speech
,
the
verb
"
be
"
can
be
replaced
with
the
verb
"
____________________
.
"
For
example
,
instead
of
saying
"
I
was
hit
by
a
car
,
"
you
can
say
,
"
I
got
hit
by
a
car
.
"
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to
this
famous
song
by
the
Eurythmics
.
You
will
hear
two
active
and
two
passive
sentences
.
