The passive voice is used in all tenses: present, past, and future. Here are some examples of the passive voice in each tense: Present Simple: The flowers are watered by the gardener. Past Simple: The lamp was knocked over by a gust of wind. Future Simple: The windows will be cleaned by the maid. Object+Was/Were+Being+Verb {3rd form of the verb}+By+Subject. He was calling my brother. [Active voice.] My brother was being called by him. [Passive voice.] We exchange Subject and Object from each other . We use Was/Were + Being as a helping verb in the past continuous tense and third form of verb. We use preposition By before Subject. Please note that ਜਾਂਦਾ is the present participle form of the root verb ਜਾ and ਸੀ is the past tense discriminant added to the present participle. The past indefinite tense is used to describe an action undertaken by the subject repetitively. ਚਾਲੂ ਭੂਤਕਾਲ - past continuous tense: Passive voice is form by using TO BE (in the right tense) + V3 (Past Participle) from of verb. We have already looked at how passive voice is used in simple tenses, i.e. Present Simple and Past Simple. These are the forms you will need most often, so make sure you know how to use them. be + past participle. The passive is formed by making the object of the active sentence the subject of the new sentence and using the appropriate form of the passive auxiliary be + the past participle form of the verb. Be is in the same tense as the verb in the active sentence. in 1928. in 1928. Exercise 1: Passive voice – various verb tenses Change these sentences to the passive voice, using a form of the verb be + past participle of the main verb. Warning – three of them can’t be made passive. Ex) Somebody gave me a form to fill out. Passive: I was given a form to fill out. 1. The past tense has four different forms to indicate the varied nature of actions that happened in the past. They are: Simple Past Tense – used to indicate an action or event that happened in the past. Past Continuous Tense – used to depict an action or event that was continuing in the past. Past Perfect Tense – used to represent an event The tenses simply show the time of an action. Past Continuous Tense indicates an action which started in the past and continued in a certain time period. The point to be taken into consideration is that the action started in the past and the continuity of the action was also in the past, so it does not continue at this moment. Passive Voice is used in sentences in which the object affected by the action or situation becomes the subject. Such sentences often reflect a more literary ambiance. You can often come across such objects, especially in literary texts. The structure of these sentences is different from the others. The words that should be used in sentences may Active से Passive में बदलने का नियम :: Past Perfect Tense के वाक्यों को नीचे दिए गए Structure के अनुसार Passive Voice मे Change किया जाता है ।. Active Voice : Subject + had + v3 + Object. Passive Voice : Object + had + been + v3 e8SmZuw.