Voice (Active and passive voice)

Active voice Passive Voice

Auxiliary Main Verb Auxiliary verb Main Verb
Verb
Simple Do V1/V1+s,es Is
Present Does Are V3
Am Past
participle
Simple Did V1 Was V3
Past Affirmative V2 Were Past
Sentence participle
Simple Shall V1 Shall be V3
Future Will Will be Past
participle
Continuous Is V1+ing Is being V3
Present Are Are being Past
Am Am being participle
Continuous Was V1+ing Was being V3
Past Were Were being Past
participle
Perfect Has V3 Has been V3
Present Have Have been Past
participle
Past Had V3 Had been V3
Perfect Past
participle
Future Shall have V3 Shall have been V3
Perfect Will have Will have been Past
participle
Modal Can V1 Can be V3
May May be Past
participle

Things to remember
• Passive voice is done only for transitive verbs where action passes from subject to object.
• E.g. Ashish kicks the ball. Actions changes from Ashish to football.
• Passive means using Past participle form of the verb.
• In passive voice subject or who does is not important but important is how it is done.
• Passive voice is used for explaining processes and procedures.
• Passive voice never done for any of the Perfect Continuous and future continuous types
of tense.