We use the passive voice in English when we want to focus on the object of the action and not the subject. The passive is used for different reasons, such as not knowing who did an action, or if we want to sound more formal.

To write a passive sentence, we need to change the structure of the sentence by using a form of the auxiliary verb 'be' and the past participle.

For example, you could say "My car was stolen" instead of "Someone stole my car", because we want to focus on the car and not who stole the car. This is also useful, because we probably don't know who stole the car.

In this series of video lessons, you will learn the difference between active and passive voice, how to make a passive sentence, when we need to use passive, and how to use passive in different tenses.