Present Simple & Continuous Passive

A2–B1Passive VoiceMarch 15, 2026

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we use the passive to change the focus

of the sentence from the subject to the

object I'll give you an

example the teacher is teaching the

students in this sentence the teacher is

the subject now the subject usually

comes first in a sentence because the

subject is usually the most important

part of the sentence but in this

sentence the students is the object now

sometimes in English we want to say the

object first because we want to focus on

the object so if you do this we need to

use the passive voice so the students

are being taught by the

teacher now why do we change the focus

well sometimes we don't know the subject

so the subject is

unknown sometimes the subject is not

important or it is less important than

the

object sometimes the subject is already

clear so we don't want to say it again

or we don't need to say it and and

finally sometimes we use the passive

because the subject is just people in

general now don't worry I'll give you

some examples to show you what I mean

right now he is being

arrested okay this is passive and we

have to think about the verb arrest now

arrest is only an action done by the

police only the police can arrest him so

if I say arrest the subject is clear

because we know arrest oh okay the

subject is the police

so in this sentence I say the passive he

is being arrested now the next example

my lunch is stolen every day well in

this sentence I use the passive because

I don't know the subject I don't know

who steals my lunch every day so I don't

know the subject so I know the object my

lunch my lunch is stolen every

day right now the road is being

repaired okay I don't care about the

people repairing the road it's not

important in my sentence so I say the

object the road is being repaired and

finally people in general well again if

it's people in general we we usually

don't need the subject example paint is

soul so at the hardware store paint is

sold well well who sells the paint well

people in general right people sell the

paint at the hardware store hardware

store workers we know the subject it's

not important now we've talked about the

present simple and how do we make

passive sentences with the present

simple well with the present simple we

need be and a past participle now be in

the present simple sometimes is am

sometimes is and sometimes are let's

look at some

examples they don't need money okay so

they don't need money this is not

passive let's change it to passive so we

say the object first money and then we

need B money isn't right money am not is

not are not is not okay money isn't and

then next we need a past part participle

money isn't needed Now by them it's not

important people make pasta in Italy

people make pasta in Italy well pasta am

is or R okay pasta is past participle

past pasta is made in Italy by people no

we don't need that now the present

continuous the present continuous is a

little bit more different difficult

because we need be and then being and

then a past

participle it's not that difficult so he

am is or R okay he am is or R okay he is

so this sentence actually is is not

passive he is using the stove okay let's

change this to passive so we say the

stove am is or R okay the stove is plus

being

and now we need a past participle the

stove is being used by him it's not

important last example she is making

dinner for us okay what is the object

dinner okay so first we need be dinner

am is or are dinner is plus being

because it's happening now dinner is

being and then we need the past

participle dinner is being made for us

again by her it's not

important so this is the present passive

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