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If you want to change an active voice statement into the passive voice, you have to take the subject and make it into the direct object.

Sounds confusing, so here's an example:

Active Voice: Lucy walks her dog.

Passive Voice: The dog is walked by Lucy.

basic rules:

a passive verb phrase follows this pattern:

be +past participle eg

present simple: The dog is walked (by Lucy).

by + noun/noun phrase is the agent and does not have to be included.

past simple: Lucy walked the dog --- The dog was walked

present continuous: Lucy is walking the dog ---- The dog is being walked.

past continuous: Lucy was walking the dog ---- The dog was being walked.

present perfect: Lucy has walked the dog ------ The dog has been walked.

past perfect: Lucy had walked the dog ---- The dog had been walked.

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