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G When the action itself is more important than knowing who or what causes it.
Read the following examples:
1. The car was badly damaged in the accident.

2. India was partitioned in 1947.

While using Passive Voice, we should keep the following points in mind:

G Past participle form of the verb alongwith an appropriate form of the auxiliary ‘be’ is
used in passive voice.

G Future continuous tenses and perfect continuous tenses do not have passive forms.
G Ditransitive verbs can have two passive forms.

Read the following example:

He gave me a book .

indirect object direct object
So, it is possible to make two passive sentences.

I was given a book by him. (indirect object as the subject)

A book was given to me by him. (direct object as the subject)
Other common verbs which can have two objects are:

teach, tell, pay, offer, show, ask, give, etc.

G Intransitive verbs (verbs which do not take objects) cannot be expressed in the
passive voice.
Read the following example:

Santanu is going to the market.
(‘is going’ does not have an object)

We will now learn the passive forms of the various tenses.

Tense / Verb Form Active Passive

Simple Present call (s) is / are / am called
Simple Past called was / were called

Simple Future will call will be called
Present Continuous is / are / am calling is / are / am being called

Past Continuous was / were calling was / were being called
Present Perfect has / have called has / have been called

Past Perfect had called had been called

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