Active – Passive in English Grammar
Active and Passive forms
We listed active and passive forms in the following table. We used the phrase I drive and put this phrase into the most common tenses.
| Active (Simple Forms) | |
|---|---|
| Simple Present | I drive |
| Simple Past | I drove |
| Present Perfect | I have driven |
| Past Perfect | I had driven |
| will-future | I will drive |
| Future Perfect | I will have driven |
| Conditional | I would drive |
| Conditional Perfect | I would have driven |
| Active (Progressive/Continuous Forms) | |
|---|---|
| Present Progressive | I am driving |
| Past Progressive | I was driving |
| Present Perfect Progressive | I have been driving |
| Past Perfect Progressive | I had been driving |
| will-future Progressive | I will be driving |
| Future Perfect Progressive | I will have been driving |
| Conditional Progressive | I would be driving |
| Conditional Perfect Progressive | I would have been driving |
| Passive (Simple Forms) | |
|---|---|
| Simple Present | I am driven |
| Simple Past | I was driven |
| Present Perfect | I have been driven |
| Past Perfect | I had been driven |
| will-future | I will be driven |
| Future Perfect | I will have been driven |
| Conditional | I would be driven |
| Conditional Perfect | I would have been driven |
| Passive (Progressive/Continuous Forms) | |
|---|---|
| Present Progressive | I am being driven |
| Past Progressive | I was being driven |
| Present Perfect Progressive* | I have been being driven |
| Past Perfect Progressive* | I had been being driven |
| will-future Progressive* | I will be being driven |
| Future Perfect Progressive* | I will have been being driven |
| Conditional Progressive* | I would be being driven |
| Conditional Perfect Progressive* | I would have been being driven |
* Tenses which are rarely used in everyday conversation.