Past Tense Passive Voice with Examples and Urdu Explanation

Understanding past tense passive voice helps learners describe actions that happened in the past without focusing on the doer. This structure is essential for formal writing, storytelling, and everyday conversations. In this blog post, we explain the rules and examples of past passive voice with Urdu translations to make learning easier. Improve your grammar skills with our grammar resources!

Past Tense Passive Voice

Past Indefinite Tense Passive Voice

Rules:

1. Swap the object of the active sentence with the subject in the passive sentence. Similarly, place the subject of the active sentence after “by” as the agent.
2. Use “was” or “were” as the helping verb, depending on the subject.
3. Use the third form of the verb (past participle).

Formula:

Subject + was/were + past participle (3rd form of verb) + by + agent

Examples:

1. Active Voice: He bought two cups.
   Passive Voice: Two cups were bought by him.
2. Active Voice: The teacher praised the student.
   Passive Voice: The student was praised by the teacher.
3. Active Voice: She wrote a letter.
   Passive Voice: A letter was written by her.

Past Continuous Tense Passive Voice

Rules:

1. The object of the active voice sentence becomes the subject of the passive voice sentence.
2. Use “was being” or “were being” based on the subject.
3. Use the third form of the verb (past participle).

Formula:

Subject + was/were + being + past participle (3rd form) + by + agent

Examples:

✅ Active Voice: He was doing sums.
✅ Passive Voice: Sums were being done by him.

✅ Active Voice: I was taking exercise.
✅ Passive Voice: Exercise was being taken by me.

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Past Perfect Tense Passive Voice

Rules:

1. The object of the active voice sentence becomes the subject of the passive voice sentence.
2. Use “had been” before the past participle (3rd form of the verb).
3. The subject of the active voice sentence becomes the agent in the passive voice (introduced by “by”).

Formula:

Subject + had been + past participle (3rd form) + by + agent

Examples:

✅ Active Voice: The hunter had killed a lion.
✅ Passive Voice: A lion had been killed by the hunter.

✅ Active Voice: He had finished the work.
✅ Passive Voice: The work had been finished by him.

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