Passive Voice Rules For All Tenses
The following format is specially designed to you help understand the passive voice rules for all tenses with ease.
Present Simple Tense (passive Voice) Am, is, are |
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Active voice: Does he sell tomatoes? |
Passive voice: |
Present Continuous Tense (passive Voice) |
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Active voice: |
Passive voice: |
Present Perfect Tense (passive Voice) |
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Active voice: |
Passive voice: |
Past Simple Tense (passive Voice) |
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Active voice: |
Passive voice: |
Past Continuous Tense (Passive Voice) was being, were being |
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Active voice: |
Passive voice: |
Past Perfect Tense (Passive Voice had been |
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Active voice: |
Passive voice: |
Future Simple Tense (Passive Voice) will be |
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Active voice: |
Passive voice: |
Future Perfect Tense (passive Voice) will have been |
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Active voice: |
Passive voice: |
Note: The following tenses cannot be changed into passive voice.
- Present perfect progressive tense
- The past perfect continuous tense
- The future continuous tense
- The future perfect continuous tense
- Sentence having Intransitive verbs
see also