Form
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Active |
Passive |
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Present simple |
They make Toyota cars in Japan. |
Toyota cars are made in Japan. |
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Past simple |
Columbus discovered America. |
America was discovered by Columbus. |
The passive allows the object of an active sentence to be used as the subject of a sentence.
The passive is used when:
-the agent (person or thing which does an action) is not known or isn't important.
-the speaker is more interested in the object of the active sentence.