Passives | LearnEnglish
learnenglish.britishcouncil.org › passivesWe often use the passive: when we prefer not to mention who or what does the action (for example, it's not known, it's obvious or we don't want to say) so that we can start a sentence with the most important or most logical information; in more formal or scientific writing. How we make the passive. We make the passive using the verb be + past participle. We start the sentence with the object.