Example: to keep
TENSE / VERB FORM | ACTIVE VOICE | PASSIVE VOICE |
Simple present | keeps | is kept |
Present continuous | is keeping | is being kept |
Simple past | kept | was kept |
Past continuous | was keeping | was being kept |
Present perfect | have kept | have been kept |
Past perfect | had kept | had been kept |
future | will keep | will be kept |
Conditional present | would keep | would be kept |
Conditional past | would have kept | would have been kept |
present infinitive | to keep | to be kept |
perfect infinitive | to have kept | to have been kept |
present participle/gerund | keeping | being kept |
perfect participle | having kept | having been kept |
Example sentences:
Active: I keep the butter in the fridge.Passive: The butter is kept in the fridge.
Active: They stole the painting.
Passive: The painting was stolen.
Active: They are repairing the road.
Passive: The road is being repaired.
Active: Shakespeare wrote Hamlet.
Passive: Hamlet was written by Shakespeare.
Active: A dog bit him.
Passive: He was bitten by a dog.