- The “Present Perfect Tense” will use the auxiliary verb “to have” (in the Present Tense) plus the “Past Participle” principal part: I have spoken, you have spoken, he/she/it has spoken, etc
Active : The gardener waters the flowers every evening
Unit 10 - Exercise 1 - The passive (present and past simple) Complete the sentences with the present or past simple passive of the verb in brackets
We use passive forms of tenses in the same way as we use their active equivalents
Put another way, the subject of a sentence in the passive voice is no longer the doer of the action, but the recipient of the action
Active Passive base form or “-s/-es” form am/is/are + past participle Professor Brown teaches at Hunter
Both the above sentences are in the Present perfect tense and render the same meaning
Example Helping Verb = Is / Am / Are Jul 08, 2013 · The passive, one of the two grammatical voices in English, allows speakers to move an object of a sentence in the active voice into the subject position
There are two voices - active voice and passive voice
Passive voice in present tense Use the passive voice to emphasize the patient (the thing being acted upon) rather than the agent (the thing acting) in a sentence, by making it the sentences subject
The cake was eaten by the dog is an example of a passive sentence
Just to get the students to differentiate and understand why passive is us