Active and Passive Voice in Different English Tenses with Examples | Learn English Grammar

Hello, everyone.

This is Mike from Shaw English.

Today, we're going to learn about active and passive voice in English with different tenses.

Now, I know many of you know how to use the active voice but switching it to the passive

voice can be somewhat confusing.

And then now, we're going to use different tenses as well.

Past tense, present tense and future tense.

Oh my gosh.

What are we gonna do?

No worries.

You are going to be masters of this very soon.

So make sure you stay until the end of the video

because we're going to do a lot of practice and you're going to have a quiz and homework.

Are you ready?

Let's get to it.

So let's review changing from active voice to passive voice.

So here, “The child is opening the door.”

We learned, from before, that active voices, they follow the subject verb object pattern.

Here our subject, or the doer, is ‘the child’.

But what is the child doing?

“The child is opening ...”

Here we have ‘ing’ attached to our verb, ‘open’, which makes ‘opening’.

This is present continuous which means that the child is opening the door right now.

At this moment.

And of course the receiver is ‘the door’.

Now, when we're switching over to passive voice, we learned from before, that our doer

and our receiver swap places.

So like in our sentence here, our doer and receiver are now in two different spots.

So ‘the door’ is now in the beginning of the sentence.

And ‘the child’ is at the end.

“The door is being opened by the child.”

‘The door’, still our receiver, is being opened.

hmm, so now our verb has changed a little bit.

Our action has changed.

So we still have ‘is’.

And we have ‘being’, so we have our “to be” verb

but we must continue our present continuous and bring down the ‘ing’.

So, “… is being…” and we have our past participle ‘opened’.

“… is being opened by the child.”

And here we have our preposition with the doer.

And sometimes the doer is left out of sentences.

And that's okay as long as we know that the door is being opened.

Now, let's practice and learn about some more tenses.

All right, everyone.

Let's practice going from active voice to passive voice using different tenses.

Let's do it.

Let's go ahead and practice some of these tenses together starting with the present simple.

“The teacher helps the student.”

So we know that this is an active voice.

And now we're going to change it into passive voice.

“The student is helped by the teacher.”

And ‘is’ is our “to be” verb.

And the past participle would be ‘helped’.

Let's look at present continuous.

“The teacher is helping the student.”

Oh there's that ‘ing’ again.

And we'll switch that over to, “The student is being …”

ah and there's the present continuous back with us and our “to be” verb.

‘helped’ there is our past participle.

“… by the teacher.”

Present perfect.

“The teacher has helped the student.”

“The student has been helped by the teacher.”

Past simple.

“The teacher helped the student.”

“The student was helped by the teacher.”

Past continuous.

“The teacher was helping the student.”

“The student was being helped by the teacher.”

Okay, so past perfect.

“The teacher had helped the student.”

“The student had been helped by the teacher.”

Future simple.

“The teacher will help the student.”

“The student will be helped by the teacher.”

Future continuous.

“The teacher will be helping the student.”

“The student will be being helped by the teacher.”

And everyone just remember that this tense is normally not used with the passive voice.

Future perfect.

“The teacher will have helped the student.”

“The student will have been helped by the teacher.”

So, everyone, how do you feel?

Feel more confident?

Awesome.

Hopefully, you have a much larger understanding of how to change active voice to passive voice

using different tenses.

Now, you're not done yet because you have homework.

I want you to change this sentence into the passive voice and put it in the comments.

Also, wait, don't go anywhere.

You have a quiz.

Okay the link for the quiz is in the description below.

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