Inglês da Professora Denise Mardegan

 A voz passiva é uma construção gramatical que destaca a ação realizada sobre o sujeito em vez do sujeito realizando a ação. Na voz passiva, o foco está no objeto da ação. A formação da voz passiva em inglês envolve o uso do "past participle" do verbo principal juntamente com o verbo auxiliar "to be" no tempo desejado. A estrutura básica da voz passiva é a seguinte: SUJEITO + VERBO AUXILIAR TO BE NO TEMPO DESEJADO + PAST PARTICIPLE DO VERBO PRINCIPAL Aqui estão alguns exemplos de como a voz passiva é formada em diferentes tempos verbais: 1. Present Simple (Presente Simples):    - Forma ativa: They build a house.    - Forma passiva: A house is built by them. 2. Past Simple (Passado Simples):    - Forma ativa: She wrote a letter.    - Forma passiva: A letter was written by her. 3. Present Continuous (Presente Contínuo):    - Forma ativa: They are painting the room.    - Forma passiva: The room is being painted by them. 4. Pa...

Sentences can be active or passive. Therefore, tenses also have "active forms" and "passive forms." You must learn to recognize the difference to successfully speak English. Active Form In active sentences, the thing doing the action is the subject of the sentence and the thing receiving the action is the object. Most sentences are active. [Thing doing action] + [verb] + [thing receiving action] Passive Form In passive sentences, the thing receiving the action is the subject of the sentence and the thing doing the action is optionally included near the end of the sentence. You can use the passive form if you think that the thing receiving the action is more important or should be emphasized. You can also use the passive form if you do not know who is doing the action or if you do not want to mention who is doing the action. [Thing receiving action] + [be] + [past participle of verb] + [by] + [thing doing action. Active / Passive Overv...