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Passive voice Present perfect
What that’s
mean?

● When we use the passive form, we focus attention on what

or who receives an action (the object). We use the passive

in almost all the tenses in English and create it by using the

verb ‘to be’. For example, in the present simple:
● ACTIVE: People collect the goods..

● PASSIVE: The goods are collected.

● In the past simple the sentence becomes,

● ACTIVE: People collected the goods yesterday.
● PASSIVE: The goods were collected yesterday.

● And when necessary we can express the same idea with the

Passive voice? present perfect. For example,
Present
PERFECT? ● ACTIVE: People have collected the goods.
● PASSIVE: The goods have been collected.