In a passive sentence, the person or thing doing the action (the agent) is usually preceded by the word "by." For example: Anita was driven to the theatre by Carla. Nowadays, black kites are protected by law. The olives are stoned and crushed in this room by my son.
How do you write a passive sentence?
How to form a passive sentence
- Firstly, you need to make the object (from the active sentence) into the new subject. For example, in “John helped me”, “me” is the object. ...
- Then you make the verb passive. ...
- Then add the past participle of the verb. ...
- If necessary, you can say who did the action.
What is passive verb example?
A verb is in the passive voice when the subject of the sentence is acted on by the verb. For example, in “The ball was thrown by the pitcher,” the ball (the subject) receives the action of the verb, and was thrown is in the passive voice.
