Passive Voice

​Sara bakes a cake.

​The cake is baked

(by Sara).

​I fried fish.

​The fish was fried

(by me).

• When we don't know or do not want to express who performed the action.

  • ​The fruit was eaten.

  • The vegetables are disinfected.

• When we want to say or know who did the action.

  • The butter was melted in the pan by Mr. Green.

  • The eggs are scrambled by mom.

1. Susan bought some fruit.

2. ​They boil two eggs for breakfast.

3. She peels a banana.

4. Tom and Peter whipped

   butter and sugar.

1. Some fruit was bought by Susan.

2. ​Two eggs were boiled for breakfast.

3. A banana is peeled.

4. Butter and sugar were

   whipped by Tom and Peter.

• The passive voice is used when we don't know who is doing the action.​

• To change ​active sentences to passive sentences, we have to identify the tense and use the correct to be verb. (am, is, are / was, were)

• U​se the past participle after the to be verb.

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