unit 1 seance 3 preparing the trip

• I’m learning how to book a plane ticket

• I’m discovering the passive structure with an adverb

• I’m discovering the British Empire

• Grammar : the passive voice 

• the passive voice

  The passive voice is a grammatical structure where the subject receives the action rather than doing it. It’s especially useful when the doer of the action is unknown, unimportant, or deliberately left out.

  🧠 How to Form the Passive Voice

  Structure: Subject + form of "be" + past participle (+ by agent)

  Examples:

  Tense	Active Voice	Passive Voice
  Present Simple	They clean the room.	The room is cleaned.
  Past Simple	She wrote the book.	The book was written.
  Future Simple	He will deliver the package.	The package will be delivered.
  Present Perfect	They have built a bridge.	A bridge has been built.

  You can include the agent (the doer) using "by", but it’s often omitted:

• The cake was eaten (by the children).

• The documents were signed.

• ✨ Why Use the Passive Voice?

• To emphasize the action or result rather than the actor “The Mona Lisa was painted in the 16th century.”

• When the actor is unknown or irrelevant “The window was broken.”

• In formal or scientific writing “The experiment was conducted under strict conditions.”

• 🔍 Passive with Adverbs

  You can add adverbs to modify the verb:

• The work was quickly completed.

• The message was clearly understood.