اللغة الإنجليزية فصل ثاني

Unit 9

Lesson 2

Student’s Book page 71

 GRAMMAR

GRAMMAR: The Present Simple Passive

The Present Simple Passive

● We use the Present Simple Passive when an action, idea or opinion is more important than the person or thing that does or has it (the agent). In such cases, we either don’t know, or are not interested in the identity of the agent.

 

● We also use the Present Simple Passive to describe a process, where, again, we either don’t know or are not interested in who carries out the process.

 

● We form the Present Simple Passive with

subject + am/is/are + the past participle of the verb.

Am/is/are are often contracted to ’m/’s/’re.

 

● We form the negative of the Present Simple Passive with

subject + am/is/are + not + the past participle of the verb.

Am/ is/are + not are usually contracted to ’m not/isn’t/aren’t.

 

● We form questions in the Present Simple Passive by changing the word order. We may also use a question word.

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● When it is important to mention the person or thing that did the action, we use by