B2 · Upper IntermediateGrammar learning path
Passive voice: forms and uses
Consolidate the passive system before using it as a style and information-structure choice. The first lesson secures tense forms; the second explains agents, formality, reporting patterns, modal passives, and alternatives such as get.
2 lessons 10 exercises
What you will learn
- Form passive structures across major tenses.
- Choose active or passive according to information focus.
- Use agents, reporting passives, modal passives, and multi-word verb passives appropriately.
Before you start
- Know past participles and the B1 simple passive.
Lessons in this path
- 1Passive voice
Reviews passive forms across present, past, and future tenses, with information focus, two-object verbs, and informal get-passives.
- 2Passive Voice: Additional Uses and Nuances
Extends the passive to agent choice, formal style, modal perfects, multi-word verbs, reporting structures, end-weight, and nuanced alternatives.