Passive or Active

Active/Passive

Helen washed the dishes.

The dishes were washed by Helen.

• They sell milk in this shop.

• Milk is sold in this shop.

They write lots of letters every week.

Lots of letters are written every week.

• I bought a new phone yesterday.

• A new phone was bought yesterday.

• They will bring the books tomorrow.

• The books will be brought tomorrow.

• I translated the text yesterday.

• The text was translated yesterday.

• He will do the work in the evening.

• The work will be done in the evening.

• He wrote this book in the 19th century.

• This book was written in the 19 th century.

• Livingstone explored Central Africa in the 19th century.

• Central Africa was explored by Livingstone in the 19th century.

• They will show this film on TV.

• This film will be shown on TV.

• We do a lot of tests at our English lessons.

• A lot of tests are done at our English lessons.