The Passive Voice

When we give more importance to action and not to those who have made, we use the passive voice.Examples:

Active voiceHe ate all of the cookies. Passive voiceAll of the cookieswere eaten.

Grammatical Rules

The passive voice with the auxiliary verb "to be" and the past participle of the verb forms.

StructureSujeto + verbo auxiliar ("to be") + participio pasadoThe speechis writtenfor the president.The housewas builtin 1975.My wallethas been stolen.The roomwill be cleanedwhile we are out.

To transform a passive active prayer we consider the following points:

1. The object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive.2. The main verb by the auxiliary "to be" is replaced in the same time along the main verb participle.3. The subject of the main clause becomes passive complement agent.4. If we mention in prayer the subject performs the action (subject agent), this will usually be preceded by the preposition "by".

Mark Twainwrotethe book. The bookwas writtenbyMark Twain.The housekeeperwill cleanthe room. The roomwill be cleanedbythe housekeeper.