lunes, 13 de abril de 2009

Passive Voice

I have listed active and passive forms in the following table. I use the phrase I drive and have put this phrase into most common tenses.


Active (Simple Forms)

Simple Present: I drive

Simple Past: I drove

Present Perfect: I have driven

Past Perfect: I had driven

will-future: I will drive

Future Perfect: I will have driven

Conditional: I would drive

Perfect Conditional: I would have driven


Active (Progressive/Continuous Forms)

Simple Present: I am driving

Simple Past: I was driving

Present Perfect: I have been driving

Past Perfect: I had been driving

will-future: I will be driving

Future Perfect: I will have been driving

Conditional: I would be driving

Perfect Conditional: I would have been driving





Passive (Simple Forms)

Simple Present: I am driven

Simple Past: I was driven

Present Perfect: I have been driven

Past Perfect: I had been driven

will-future: I will be driven

Future Perfect: I will have been driven

Conditional: I would be driven

Perfect Conditional: I would have been driven


Passive (Progressive/Continuous Forms)

Present: I am being driven

Past: I was being driven

Present Perfect ¹: I have been being driven

Past Perfect ¹: I had been being driven

Future ¹: I will be being driven

Future Perfect ¹: I will have been being driven

Conditional ¹: I would be being driven

Perfect Conditional ¹: I would have been being driven


¹ Tenses which are rarely used in everyday conversation.

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