{"id":2694,"date":"2017-12-03T17:03:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T17:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2017-12-03T17:03:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T17:03:36","slug":"passive-verb-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/passive-verb-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"Passive Verb Forms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Study the following table carefully and note how the verb\u00a0<b>write\u00a0<\/b>changes its form when it is changed to the passive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"2\" width=\"420\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th bgcolor=\"black\">Tense<\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"black\">Active Verb<\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"black\">Passive Verb<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Simple Present<\/td>\n<td>write\/writes<\/td>\n<td>is\/am\/are written<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Present continuous<\/td>\n<td>is\/am\/are writing<\/td>\n<td>is\/are\/am being written<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Present perfect<\/td>\n<td>has\/have written<\/td>\n<td>has\/have been written<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Simple past<\/td>\n<td>wrote<\/td>\n<td>was\/were written<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Past continuous<\/td>\n<td>was\/were writing<\/td>\n<td>was\/were being written<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Past perfect<\/td>\n<td>had written<\/td>\n<td>had been written<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Simple future<\/td>\n<td>will\/shall write<\/td>\n<td>will\/shall be written<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Future continuous<\/td>\n<td>will\/shall be writing<\/td>\n<td>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Future perfect<\/td>\n<td>will\/shall have written<\/td>\n<td>will\/shall have been written<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><b>Perfect continuous<\/b>\u00a0forms of all three tenses are not used in the passive. Similarly\u00a0<b>future continuous tense\u00a0<\/b>is also not used in the passive.<\/p>\n<table border=\"2\" width=\"420\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th bgcolor=\"black\">Tense<\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"black\">Active Voice<\/th>\n<th bgcolor=\"black\">Passive Voice<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Simple Present<\/td>\n<td>John writes a letter.<\/td>\n<td>A letter is written by John.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Present continuous<\/td>\n<td>John is writing a letter .<\/td>\n<td>A letter is being written by John.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Present perfect<\/td>\n<td>John has written a letter.<\/td>\n<td>A letter has been written by John.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Simple Past<\/td>\n<td>John wrote a letter.<\/td>\n<td>A letter was written by John.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Past continuous<\/td>\n<td>John was writing a letter.<\/td>\n<td>A letter was being written by John.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Past perfect<\/td>\n<td>John had written a letter.<\/td>\n<td>A letter had been written by John.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Simple future<\/td>\n<td>John will write a letter.<\/td>\n<td>A letter will be written by John.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Future perfect<\/td>\n<td>John will have written a letter.<\/td>\n<td>A letter will have been written by John.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study the following table carefully and note how the verb\u00a0write\u00a0changes its form when it is changed to the passive. &nbsp; Tense Active Verb Passive Verb Simple Present write\/writes is\/am\/are written Present continuous is\/am\/are writing&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[536],"class_list":["post-2694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons","tag-passive-verb-forms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2695,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions\/2695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}