When do we use the passive voice

• When you don’t know who did the action: The paper had been moved.The active voice would be something like this: “Someone had moved the paper.”

• When you want to hide who did the action: The window had been broken.The sentence is either hiding who broke the window or they do not know

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Make notes about the passive voice

Form

• Active voice

• Subject + will have + verb(Past Participle) + Object

• Passive voice

• Object + will + have been +verb(Past Participle) + by Subject.

Time expressions

by ..., by then , by the year ..., in an hour, in 5 years' time

Object + will + have been + past participle

Future Perfect Passive

Future passive

Passive voice is used to show interest in the person or object that experiences an action rather than the person or object that performs the action