ACTIVE / PASSIVE FROMS OF VERBS

- The passive form of verbs is made with the different tenses of BE + the past participle :(for example : English is spoken here.) - We use the active form to say what the subject does. For example:I speak English every day at work.I repaired the flat tire on the car.


-The subject of a passive verb corresponds to the object of an active verb :Food is cooked every day. (Passive).The chef cooks food every day. (Active)- We use the passive form to say what happens to people and things, to say what is done to them. For example:English is spoken here.The car is being repaired.- We use the passive form when we don't know who did the action.


For example:The car was damaged while it was parked on the street.The shirts were made in Turkey.

The letter was delivered at 9 a.m.

The identity of the person who delivered the letter is unknown or unimportant.


- If we want to say who delivered the letter, we use 'by':

The letter was delivered by the postman.


VERB ACTIVE PASSIVE

Infinitive : To cook ,To be cooked


- Present Simple : I cook food in the kitchen. Food is cooked in the kitchen.

- Present Continuous: I am cooking food in the kitchen./ Food is being cooked in the kitchen.

- Present Perfect: I have cooked food in the kitchen. / Food has been cooked in the kitchen.

- Past Simple: I cooked food in the kitchen./ Food was cooked in the kitchen.

- Past Continuous: I was cooking food in the kitchen./ Food was being cooked in the kitchen.

- Past Perfect: I had cooked food in the kitchen./ Food had been cooked in the kitchen.

- Future: I will cook food in the kitchen / Food will be cooked in the kitchen.

- Future Perfect: I will have cooked food in the kitchen. / Food will have been cooked in the kitchen.

- Conditional: I would cook food in the kitchen. / Food would be cooked in the kitchen.

- Cond. Perfect: I would have cooked food in the kitchen./ Food would have been cooked in the kitchen .

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