The simple past passive. B1 intermediate:

The past simple passive in English is formed by using the past participle of a verb along with “was” or “were”.

For example:

“The mistakes were corrected by the teacher”.

How to form the past simple passive:

Use “was” or “were”

Add the past participle of the verb

Use “by” to identify who or what performed the action.

When to use the past simple passive:

The passive voice is used when the person or thing that performed the action is unknown, unimportant, or not the focus of interest.

Examples of the past simple passive :

The mistakes were corrected by the teacher.

“Rice was eaten by me.

How to form the passive voice:

The passive voice is formed by using a form of the auxiliary verb “be” (be, am, is, are, was, were, being, been) followed by the past participle of the main verb.

Something was done by someone at sometime in the past.

Active : The teacher corrected the mistakes.

Passive: The mistakes were corrected by the teacher.

Active : Did the little boy sell all the candy bars?

Passive: Were all the candy bars sold by the little boy?

Active : Lauren didn’t eat any apples.

Passive: No apples were eaten by Lauran.

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