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Passive Voice


Passive Voice
                        S + V1 + O
Active : (a) Dian reads a book
Form of passive : be + past participle
                     S + To be + V3
Passive : (b) A book is read by Dian
In the passive, the object of verb becomes the subject of the passive verb : “a book” in (a) becomes the subject of the passive verb in (b). (a) and (b) have the same meaning.


TENSES
ACTIVE
PASSIVE
simple present
Putri sings a song
A song is sung by Putri
present progessive
Putri is singing a song
A song is being sung by Putri
present perfect
Putri has sung a song
A song has been sung by Putri
simple past
Putri sang a song
A song was sung by Putri
past progessive
Putri was singing a song
A song was being sung by Putri
past perfect
Putri had sung a song
A song had been sung by Putri
simple future
Putri will sing a song
A song will be sung by Putri
be going to
Putri is going to sing a song
A song is going to be sung by Putri
future perfect
Putri will have sung a song
A song will have been sung by Putri

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