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Grammar
Objective: Transform active sentences into passive ones, agree the past participle with the new subject, and recognise when the passive is preferable to the active.
| Tense | Active | Passive |
|---|---|---|
| present | On répare la voiture. | La voiture est réparée. |
| passé composé | On a réparé la voiture. | La voiture a été réparée. |
| imparfait | On réparait la voiture. | La voiture était réparée. |
| futur simple | On réparera la voiture. | La voiture sera réparée. |
The passive requires the auxiliary être plus the past participle, not the auxiliary avoir. The active auxiliary disappears when the sentence is passivized.
The past passive uses the auxiliary être in the passé composé, and the past participle agrees with the feminine subject maison.
The passive uses the auxiliary être and the past participle écrite, which agrees with the feminine subject lettre.
The past passive uses the auxiliary être in the passé composé. The participle takes the feminine ending to agree with voiture.
The plural direct object of the active version becomes the plural subject, and the participle takes the feminine plural ending -es.
The verb aimer is a verb of emotion, so the agent is introduced by de rather than par.
The passive future uses être in the future tense. The participle ouvert is irregular and does not end in the usual -é.
7 exercises · about 11 minutes
The agent is introduced by par or by de, but not by both in the same sentence. Verbs of emotion, such as aimer, commonly take de.
Only transitive verbs passivize, since the passive requires a direct object to become the new subject. The verb dormir is intransitive and has no passive form.
The agent is omitted because it is irrelevant. The construction focuses on the building itself, not on the people who built it.
The agent is introduced by par, since présenter is a verb of action. The participle remains masculine singular.
The agent is left unstated because the action follows a fixed rule. The participle agrees with the feminine plural subject portes.