Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Passive Voice
- Use
- Change of focus
- 24 people were killed by the flood.
- Unknown or
unimportant agent
- Tom's bike has been stolen.
- Generalised agent
- Smartphones are used
for many different things.
- Obvious agent
- The murderer has been arrested.
- Impersonality
- Mistakes have been made.
- Description of processes
- After they had been picked, the grapes were
crushed with bare feet.
- Structure
- Present Simple (am, is, are) + pp
- Present Continuous (am, is, are + being) + pp
- Past Simple (was, were) + pp
- Past Continuous (was, were + being) + pp
- Present Perfect (has, have + been) + pp
- Past Perfect (had + been) + pp
- Future Simple (will be) + pp
- Future Be going to (am, is, are + going to be)
- Modal (must / can) (must + be or can, could + be) + pp
- Modal Perfect (should have + been) + pp