Passive voice (Students will be learn)
Passive voice
(to be + past participle)
Verb tense | Active form | Passive form (positive) | Passive form (negative) | Passive form (questions) |
Present simple | They clean the windows every week. | The windows are cleaned every week. | The windows are not cleaned every week. | Are the windows cleaned every week? |
Past simple | They cleaned the windows yesterday. | The windows were cleaned yesterday. | The windows were not cleaned yesterday. | Were the windows cleaned yesterday? |
Present continuous | They are cleaning the windows now. | The windows are being cleaned now. | The windows are not being cleaned now. | Are The windows being cleaned now.? |
Past continuous | They were cleaning the windows when Mum arrived. | The windows were being cleaned when Mum arrived. | The windows were not being cleaned when Mum arrived. | Were the windows being cleaned when Mum arrived? |
Future simple | They will clean the windows tomorrow. | The windows will be cleaned tomorrow. | The windows will not be cleaned tomorrow. | Will the windows be cleaned tomorrow? |
Present perfect | They have already cleaned the windows. | The windows have already been cleaned. | The windows have already been cleaned. | Have the windows already been cleaned? |
Past perfect | They had cleaned the windows before the meeting was over. | The windows had been cleaned before the meeting was over. | The windows had not been cleaned before the meeting was over. | Had the windows been cleaned before the meeting was over? |
Future perfect | They will have cleaned the windows by tomorrow morning. | The windows will have been cleaned by tomorrow morning. | The windows will not have been cleaned by tomorrow morning. | Will the windows have been cleaned by tomorrow morning? |
Conditional | If it didn’t rain yesterday, they would clean the windows. | The windows would be cleaned if it didn’t rain yesterday. | The windows would not be cleaned if it didn’t rain yesterday. | Would the windows be cleaned if it didn’t rain yesterday? |
Perfect conditional | If it hadn’t rained for a long time, they would have cleaned the windows. | The windows would have been cleaned if it hadn’t rained for a long time. | The windows would not have been cleaned if it hadn’t rained for a long time. | Would the windows have been cleaned it hadn’t rained for a long time? |