Practice Passive Voice in Present Tenses

Passive voice = BE + PAST PARTICIPLE (3rd form).

Passive voice actions are done by people who are unknown or unimportant.

In present tenses and forms, passive voice is made as follows:

• Present Simple Passive: The laptop is stolen.
• Present Continuous Passive: The laptop is being stolen.
• Present Perfect Passive: The laptop has been stolen.
• Present Perfect Continuous Passive: The laptop has been being stolen. (rare)
• Zero Conditional Passive: If the laptop is stolen, I buy a new one.
• Modal Present Passive: The laptop can / must / has to / may / should be stolen.
• Imperative Form Passive: Let the laptop be stolen. / You are advised / requested to steal the laptop.

We normally use passive voice in formal spoken and written contexts. We don’t normally use it to talk about everyday informal actions, e.g. I ate toast for breakfast. = Toast was eaten for breakfast.

Passive voice is most often seen / heard in the following contexts:

A. business English
B. creative arts
C. production
D. crime and punishment
E. natural disasters
F. invention / discovery
G. historical events
H. life story / obituary

Write sentences using the prompts. Embellish where possible. Say which context they belong to A-H:

Practice Passive Voice in Present Tenses

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