What does the passive voice mean in English. Active and passive voice in English

The rules of the English language are such that at the beginning of a sentence there is usually a word indicating the object or person performing the action. For example:
I cook dinner every day.— I cook dinner every day.

The action is expressed in the active voice, i.e. the person, in this case "I", perform some action. The same idea can be expressed in another way:
Dinner is cooked every day. - Dinner is prepared every day.

As you can see, formally the place of the subject was taken by the word "lunch", although "lunch" does nothing by itself. This sentence is written in the passive voice, in other words Passive Voice. In such a sentence, it is important not who performs the action, but the action itself.

Rules for using the passive voice

When to use the passive voice?

1. When it is not known who or what is doing the action.
2. When the action itself is important, and not the one who performed it.

A passive voice is formed with the help of the verb to be in the required form and the third form of the semantic verb.

The passive voice has several forms. In this lesson, we will look at the forms of the simple present, past and future tenses. Let's present the forms of the passive voice in the table:

To ask a question in the passive voice, it is enough to remember how a question is asked in the tenses of Present Simple, Past Simple and Future Simple. In the first two cases, the verb to be is placed before the subject, in the second - the auxiliary verb will. For example:
Is the letter sent?

Was the car washed?

Will the house be bought?

Negation is formed using the particle "not": I won't be asked tomorrow.

If you want to emphasize by whom an action was performed, use a preposition by:
This book was written by Charles Dickens. This book was written by Charles Dickens.

If after by you use a pronoun, it will be in the indirect case:
The tickets were bought by me. The tickets were bought by me.

If it is important for you to indicate with what help the action is performed, use the preposition with:
Soup is eaten with a spoon. Soup is eaten with a spoon.

Important! The passive voice often uses modal verbs. The proposal is structured as follows:
modal verb +be + V3

For example: It must be done tomorrow.

Important! Not all verbs can be used in the passive voice. These verbs include:

• to fly, to arrive
• to be, to become
• to have, to possess, to belong
• to come, to go, to last

It would be logical to ask what to do if we want to express an action that has just ended or is ongoing at the moment, using the passive voice. Everything is simple. The Present Perfect Passive and Present Continuous Passive forms will help you.

As you remember, with help. The Present Perfect expresses the result of an action, and the Present Continuous describes the action that is happening at the moment. The same can be expressed with the passive voice.

Compare a few offers:

As shown in the table, in the active voice the agent is the person, "I", and in the passive voice, the place of the subject is occupied by the object - "machine". The passive form in both tenses is built using the verb to be and the verb in the third form, while the verb to be changes in accordance with the chosen tense form:

As you can see, in the passive voice, the Continuous form is expressed with the verb be with the ending ing, and the Perfect form is expressed with the auxiliary verb have and the verb be in the third form.

Passive voice signal words

Important! The choice of the desired form of the passive voice will be prompted by the same signal words that are used with the forms of the active voice. Let's look at a few examples:
The windows are being clean ed at the moment.

The football match is being play ed next Sunday.

the door has just been paint ed.

The cake hasn't been eaten yet.

As you can see, all signals are valid for both active and passive voices. And their place in the proposal is governed by the rules you already know.

To ask a question in the Present Perfect Passive or Present Continuous Passive, you need to change the word order in the sentence, for example:
Are you being followed?

What has it been made of?

Tasks for the lesson

Task 1. Expand the brackets using Passive Voice.

1. The car (not/sell) yesterday.
2. The ceiling (paint) next week.
3. The paper (buy) by my father every week.
4. A new house (build) here next year.
5. much money (spend) yesterday in the shop?
6. My clothes usually (iron) by my mother.
7. Your article (publish) last month.
8. The door (not/open).

Task 2. Translate.

1. The store is closed.
2. Everyone trusts him.
3. When will the film be shown?
4. Yesterday the children were taken to the zoo.
5. The song was not sung.
6. Has your bag been stolen?
7. They didn't tell me anything.
8. Museums are visited by many people.

Task 3. Open the brackets using Present Perfect Passive or Present Continuous Passive

1. Jeanette usually goes to school, but this month she (teach) at home.
2. The problem just (solve).
3. I can't find my purse. I think it (steal).
4. A very good job recently (offer) to my brother.
5. You breakfast still (cook).
6. The office (repair) at the moment.
7. You ever (bite) by a dog?
8. The new bridge (build) at the moment.

Task 4. Change the sentences using the passive voice.

1. I have already sold my flat.
2. She is writing a letter.
3. I buy bread every day.
4. He will repair the bike.
5. Is she using a computer at the moment?
6. Someone broke the window.
7. Mom has ironed my shirt.
8. You can buy cheese in any supermarket.

Answer 1.

1. wasn't sold
2. will be painted
3. is bought
4. will be built
5. Was a lot of money spent…
6. are usually ironed
7. was published
8. isn't open

Answer 2.

1. The shop is closed.
2. He is trusted by everyone.
3. When will the film be shown?
4. The children were taken to the Zoo yesterday.
5. The song wasn't sung.
6. Was you bag stolen?
7. I was told nothing./I wasn't told anything.
8. Museums are visited by many people.

Answer 3.

1. is being taught
2. has just been solved
3. has been stolen
4. has recently been offered
5. is still being cooked
6. is being repaired
7. Have you ever been…
8. is being built

Answer 4.

1. My flat has already been sold.
2. A letter is being written.
3. Bread is bought every day.
4. The bike will be repaired.
5. Is the computer being used at the moment?
6. The window has been broken.
7. My shirt has been ironed.
8. Cheese can be bought in any supermarket.

To say that an action is being performed on an object or person, the English language uses the passive voice.

For example:

“The car has been repaired. The door is closed. Children are punished. The documents have been signed."

As you can see, in such sentences we focus on the action itself, and not on the one who performed it.

In English, the passive voice is used very often. I think you have seen such sentences more than once in films, books, news, newspapers in English.

In this article, we will look at when the passive voice is used, and how to form such sentences in all tenses.

From the article you will learn:

• General rules for using the passive voice in English
• Table of the use of the passive voice in all tenses

What is active and passive voice in English?

First, let's look at what a pledge is and why it is needed in English.

Pledge expresses attitude to action, that is, it shows:

• the person/object performs the action itself (I brought the letter)
• the person/object experiences the action of someone on itself (the letter was brought)

Accordingly, in English there are two types of collateral:

1. Active voice (Active voice)- the actor himself performs actions.

For example:

Clients have signed a contract (clients are an actor and they have performed a certain action).

2. Passive voice- the actor experiences the action of another person.

For example:

The contract is signed (the contract was not signed by himself, the action was performed on him).

When do we use the passive voice?

3 cases of using the passive voice in English

As I said, the passive voice is used when something/someone is being acted upon. In such sentences, the main emphasis is always on the action itself.

These may be the following cases:

1. When we don't know who did the action.
For example: The bank was robbed (we don't know who did it).

2. When it is not important for us who performed the action, but the action itself is important.
For example: This house will be built next year (we don't care who does it, we care that it will be built).

3. When we don't want to say who exactly did it(if something bad happened and we don't want to blame anyone).
For example: The holiday is ruined (we don't want to say who ruined it).

Now let's look at the rules for constructing such sentences in English.

General rules for constructing the passive voice in English

I must say right away that it is not difficult to build such sentences in English. For this you need:

1. Put the object / person on which the action is performed in the first place in the sentence.

For example:

A letter….
Letter…

A car…
Car…

Children….
Children…

2. Put the verb to be in the right tense in second place.

Let's take a look at the three most used tenses in English:

• Present Simple (simple present) - am, are, is
• Past Simple (simple past tense) - was, were
• Future Simple (simple future tense) - will be

For example:

A letter is….
Letter….

A car was….
The car was...

Children will be….
Children will…

3. The action itself (verb), which is performed on the acting person, put in the past tense.

There are regular and irregular verbs in English. You can find out the correct verb or not by looking it up in a dictionary.

Depending on the verb, we:

• add the ending -ed if the verb is correct (prepare - prepared)
• put it in the 3rd form if the verb is not correct (send - sent)

For example:

A letter is delivered.
The letter is delivered.

A car was sold.
The car has been sold.

Children will be punished.
Children will be punished.

If we want to add that an action is performed by someone or with the help of something, we can use the prepositions by and with.

Usagebyandwithin the passive voice

1. We use by to say that the action will be performed by someone. We put it at the end of the sentence, and after it the character (by Tom, by Mary).

For example:

The documents were sent by his secretary.
Documents sent by his secretary

2. We use with to say that an action will be performed with some tool. We put with at the end of the sentence, and after it the tool itself (with a knife, with a pen)

For example:

The picture will be painted with a pencil.
The picture will be drawn in pencil.

We talked in detail about how to build a passive voice in 3 simple tenses in these articles:

• Future Simple Passive - simple future tense in the passive voice in English

However, in some cases, the passive voice is also used in other tenses.

Let's see what these offers look like.

Table of the use of the passive voice in all tenses of the English language

Since the passive voice is most often used in 3 simple tenses, we will not dwell on the rest in detail, but consider a general usage table.

As you can see from the example of three simple tenses, the principle of construction remains the same at all times.

All that changes is the verb to be. We put it at the right time for us.

Here's how it goes.

As you may have noticed, there are not some complex tenses in the table. Why? It's just that they are never used in the passive voice. We replace them with simpler tenses.

So, we have analyzed the use of the passive voice in English. Now let's move on to the practical task.

Reinforcement task

Translate the following sentences into English. Leave your answers in the comments.

1. The door is open.
2. The letter will be delivered by evening.
3. Job done.
4. The car is being washed now.
5. The house will be for sale.
6. The fence was painted yesterday.

1. The postbox (to empty) every day.
2. The letters (to deliver).

Answers: 1. is emptied 2. are postmarked. 3. are sorted. 4. is loaded. 5. are unloaded. 6. are taken. 7. are sorted. 8. are delivered.

Exercise 2. Open the brackets using the verbs in the Past Simple Passive. (YESTERDAY)

1. The postbox (to empty) yesterday.
2. The stamps (to postmark) at the post office.
3. The letters (to sort) into the different towns.
4. The mail (to load) into the train.
5. The mailbags (to unload) after their journey.
6. The bags (to take) to the post office.
7. The letters (to sort) into the different streets.
8. The letters (to deliver).

Answers: 1. was emptied. 2. were postmarked. 3. were sorted. 4. was loaded. 5. were unloaded. 6. were taken. 7. were sorted. 8. were delivered.

Exercise 3. Open the brackets using the verbs in the Future Simple Passive. (TOMORROW)

1. The postbox (to empty) tomorrow.
2. The stamps (to postmark) at the post office.
3. The letters (to sort) into the different towns.
4. The mail (to load) into the train.
5. The mailbags (to unload) after their journey.
6. The bags (to take) to the postoffice.
7. The letters (to sort) into the different streets.
8. The letters (to deliver).

Answers: 1. will be emptied. 2. will be postmarked. 3. will be sorted. 4. will be loaded. 5. will be unloaded. 6. will be taken. 7. will be sorted. 8. will be delivered.

Exercise 4. Open the brackets using the verbs in Present, Past or Future Simple Passive.

1. My question (to answer) yesterday.
2. Hockey (to play) in winter.
3. Mushrooms (to gather) in autumn.
4. Many houses (to burn) during the Great Fire of London.
5. His new book (to finish) next year.
6. Flowers (to sell) in shops and in the streets.
7. St. Petersburg (to found) in 1703.
8. Bread (to eat) every day.
9. The letter (to receive) yesterday.
10. Nick (to send) to Moscow next week.
11. I (to ask) at the lesson yesterday.
12. I (to give) a very interesting book at the library last Friday.
13. Many houses (to build) in our town every year.
14. This work (to do) tomorrow.
15. This text (to translate) at the last lesson.
16. These trees (to plant) last autumn.
17. Many interesting games always (to play) at our PT lessons.
18. This bone (to give) to my dog ​​tomorrow.
19. We (to invite) to a concert last Saturday.
20. Lost time never (to find) again.
21. Rome (not to build) in a day.

Answers: 1. was answered. 2. is played. 3. are gathered. 4. were burnt. 5. will be finished. 6. are sold. 7. was founded. 8. is eaten. 9. was received. 10. will be sent. 11. was asked. 12. was given. 13. are built. 14. will be done. 15. was translated. 16. were planted. 17. are always played. 18. will be given. 19. were invited. 20. is never found. 21. was not built.

Exercise 5. Open the brackets, choosing the correct form of the verb.

1. At the station they will (meet, be met) by a man from the travel bureau.
2. She will (meet, be met) them in the hall upstairs.
3. The porter will (bring, be brought) your luggage to your room.
4. Your luggage will (bring, be brought) up in the lift.
5. You may (leave, be left) your hat and coat in the cloakroom downstairs.
6. They can (leave, be left) the key with the clerk downstairs.
7. From the station they will (take, be taken) straight to the hotel.
8. Tomorrow he will (take, be taken) them to the Russian Museum.

Answers: 1. will be met. 2. will meet. 3. will bring. 4. will be brought. 5. may leave. 6. can leave. 7. will be taken. 8. will take.

Exercise 6. Transmit the following sentences in Passive Voice, paying attention to the place of the preposition.

E.g. We often speak of her. - She is often spoken of.

1. The senior students laughed at the freshman.
2. The group spoke to the headmistress yesterday.
3. Young mothers looked after their babies with great care.
4. Nobody lived in that old house.
5. They sent for Jim and told him to prepare a report on that subject.
6. We thought about our friend all the time.
7. The doctor will operate on him in a week.
8. The teacher sent for the pupil's parents.
9. They looked for the newspaper everywhere.
10. Nobody slept in the bed.
11. The neighbor asked for the telegram.
12. Everybody listened to the lecturer with great attention.

Answers: 1. The freshman was laughed at. 2. The headmistress was spoken to yesterday. 3. The babies were looked after with great care. 4. That old house was not lived in. 5. Jim was sent for and told to prepare a report on that subject. 6. Our friend was thought about all the time. 7. He will be operated on in a week. 8. The pupil's parents were sent for. 9. The newspaper was looked for everywhere. 10. The bed was not slept in. 11. The telegram was asked for. 12. The lecturer was listened to with great attention.

Exercise 7. Open the brackets using verbs in Active Voice or Passive Voice.

1. Nobody (to see) him yesterday.
2. The telegram (to receive) tomorrow.
3. He (to give) me this book next week.
4. The answer to this question can (to find) in the encyclopedia.
5. We (to show) the historical monuments of the capital to the delegation tomorrow.
6. You can (to find) interesting information about the life in the USA in this book.
7. Budapest (to divide) by the Danube into two parts: Buda and Pest.
8. Yuri Dolgoruki (to found) Moscow in 1147.
9. Moscow University (to found) by Lomonosov.
10. We (to call) Zhukovski the father of Russian aviation.

Answers: 1 saw. 2. will be received. 3. will give. 4. be found. 5. shall show. 6. find. 7. is divided. 8.founded. 9. was founded. 10 call.

Exercise 8. Send the following sentences to Passive Voice.

1. Not stole a lot of money from the shop.
2. By six o'clock they had finished the work.
3. At twelve o'clock the workers were loading the trucks.
4. By three o'clock the workers had loaded the trucks.
5. We send our daughter to rest in the south every year.
6. They will show this film on TV.
7. They are building a new concert hall in our street.
8. I bought potatoes yesterday.
9. We shall bring the books tomorrow.
10. They are repairing the clock now.
11. They sell milk in this shop.
12. I have translated the whole text.
13. They broke the window last week.
14. When I came home, they had eaten the sweets.
15. We shall do the work in the evening.
16. He wrote this book in the 19th century.
17. They were playing tennis from four to five.
18. They have made a number of important experiments in this laboratory.
19. Livingstone explored Central Africa in the 19th century.
20. By the middle of autumn we had planted all the trees.
21. They will stage this play at the beginning of next season.
22. They have forgotten the story.
23. Has anybody explained the rules of the game to you?
24. They haven't brought back my skates.

Answers: 1. A lot of money was stolen from the shop. 2. By six o'clock the work had been finished. 3. At twelve o'clock the trucks were being loaded. 4. By three o'clock the trucks had been loaded. 5. Our daughter is sent to rest in the south every year. 6. This film will be shown on TV. 7. A new concert hall is being built in our street. 8. Potatoes were bought yesterday. 9. The books will be brought tomorrow. 10. The clock is being repaired now. 11. Milk is sold in this shop. 12. The whole text has been translated.. 13. The window was broken last week. 14. When I came home, the sweets had been eaten. 15. The work will be done in the evening. 16. This book was written in the 19th century. 17. Tennis was being played. from four to five. 18. The number of important experiments K-we were made in this laboratory. 19. Central Africa was explored by Livingstone in the 19th century. 20. By the middle of autumn all the trees had been planted. 21. This play will be staged at the beginning of next season. 22. The story has been forgotten. 23. Have the rules of the game been explained to you? 24. My skates haven't been brought back.

Exercise 9. Send the following sentences to Active Voice. Enter any suitable subjects.

1. The room was cleaned and aired.
2. Have all these books been read?
3. Whom were these letters written by?
4. The letter has just been typed.
5. She showed me the picture which had been painted by her husband.
6. I shall not be allowed to go there.
7. He has been told everything, so he knows what to do now.
8. All the questions must be answered.
9. The door has been left open.
10. Betty was met at the station.
11. The girl was not allowed to go to the concert.
12. She said that the new timetable had not yet been hung up on the notice board.
13. The roast chicken was eaten with appetite.
14. It was so dark, that the houses could not be seen.
15. The light has not yet been turned off.
16. The boy was punished for misbehaving.
17. By three o'clock everything had been prepared.
18. The dictation was written without mistakes.
19. Whom was the poem written by?
20. Her dress was washed and ironed.
21. I was not blamed for the mistakes.
22. The papers had been looked through and corrected by the next lesson.
23. This house was built last year.
24. The letter has just been sent.
25. This article will be translated at the lesson on Tuesday.
26. When will this book be returned to the library?

Answers: I. She cleaned and aired the room. 2. Have you read all these books? 3. Who wrote these letters? 4. The secretary has just typed the letter. 5. She showed me the picture which her husband had painted. 6. My parents will not allow me to go there. 7. We have told him everything so he knows what to do. 8. You must answer all the questions. 9. They have left the door open. 10. We met Betty at the station.
II. The girl's mother did not allow her to go to the concert. 12. She said that they had not yet hung up the new timetable on the notice board. 13. We ate the chicken with appetite. 14. It was so dark that we could not see the houses. 15. They have not yet turned off the light. 16. She punished the boy for misbehaving. 17. By three o'clock we had prepared everything. 18. We wrote the dictation without mistakes. 19. Who wrote the poem? 20. She washed and ironed her dress. 21. They didn't blame me for the mistakes. 22. The teacher had looked through and corrected the papers by the next lesson. 23.They built this house last year. 24. We have just sent the letter. 25. We shall translate this article at the lesson on Tuesday. 26. When will you return this book to the library?

Exercise 10. Translate into English using the verbs in Passive Voice.

1. We were shown a very strange picture.
2. They are looking for you. Go home.
3. You will all be invited to the hall and told about all the changes in the school curriculum.
4. Why is he always laughed at?
5. We were all given tickets to the exhibition.
6. The lectures of this famous professor are always listened to with great attention.
7. Someone is waiting for me?
8. They were asked three difficult questions.
9. The director has already been sent for. Wait a bit.
10. Everyone was invited to a big hall.
11. These letters have been reviewed. They can be sent.
12. The guide met them at the station and took them to the hotel.
13. These magazines should be returned to the library next week.
14. In our classes, a lot of attention is paid to pronunciation.
15. Ivanov was ordered to explain why he missed classes.
16. Will I be invited to your party?
17. The children were left at home alone.

Answers: 1. We were shown a very strange picture. 2. You are being looked at. go home. 3. All of you will be gathered in the hall and told about all the changes in the school curriculum. 4. Why is he always laughing at? 5. All of us were given tickets to the exhibition. 6. The lectures of this famous professor are always listened to with great attention. 7. Am I being waited for? 8. They were asked three difficult questions. 9. The headmaster has already been sent for. Please wait a little. 10. Everybody was invited to a big hall. 11. These letters have been looked through. They can be sent. 12. At the station they were met by the guide and taken to the hotel. 13. These magazines must be returned to the library next week. 14. At our lessons much attention is paid to pronunciation. 15. Ivanov was told to explain why he missed classes. 16. Shall I be invited to your party? 17. The children were left alone at home.

WELL DONE!

Literature:

1. Pavlichenko O.M. English language. Grammar practice. II level. - 2nd ed., corrected. and additional - X .: Ranok, 2012. - 304 p.
2. Golitsynsky Yu.B. Grammar: A collection of exercises. - 5th ed., - St. Petersburg: KARO, 2005. - 544 p. - (English for schoolchildren).

Good afternoon dear friends! Today I will tell you about the active voice in British speech.

Of course, it is easiest for us to perceive any information about a foreign language in comparison with our native Russian.

The active voice in English and the simple rules for composing a sentence are very easy to remember in such a comparison.

Only in order

There are a huge number of dialects and variations in the English language, and it is hard to imagine that the birthplace of a language spoken by one and a half billion people is a small European country with an area of ​​​​just over 240 thousand square kilometers.

And, despite such a huge distribution of British and its varieties in each of them, the rules for constructing a sentence and using 12 times of the active voice remain unchanged.

It is to such a scheme that one must lead one's speech to form an active voice.

It's not difficult at all, is it? Well, let's move on. Read about how to form a passive voice.

I went to London - three ways

Expressions with direct word order in English can stand in 12 tenses, just like in Russian, time is expressed by a verb - a predicate.

At first glance, it may seem that 12 tenses is a lot, but it is very easy to understand them.

The table of active voice times can help us with this:

On the left you see exactly the same groups of tenses as in Russian: , and (from top to bottom). Everything is very clear here.

Above - groups of tenses that are not similar to Russian ones: simple, continued, perfect and perfect-continued.

In order to easily remember these groups and the rules for their application, it is enough to compare the examples of sentences given in the table.
In general terms, the following conclusion can be drawn:

• Indefinite (or Simple) - simple, we use it when we talk about what happens sometime in the past or future, or in the present with some periodicity (often, always, sometimes). Pay attention to the rules for the formation of sentences in this tense - they are very simple: V is the initial form of the verb, Vs is the initial form + s.
• Continuous - or long. From the name it is clear that it lasts now, in the past or in the future at a certain time. It is also formed simply: the predicate will always have the ending ing, and the predicate will be preceded by to be in the right time and number.

• Perfect - perfect or. We use it when we talk about an action that took place in the past or future, BUT completed by the time of speech (in the present), by the exact time in the past or future. They say that the result of an action must be on the face by a certain time. We form with the help of the auxiliary verb have / has and the main one in the third form.

• Perfect Continuous is a mixture of the second and third, both in essence and in the name, and even in education. The action has already lasted for some time and continues to last at a certain point in time. Formed: have + been + predicate with the ending ing. Where has been is to be in the third form.

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I was with you, Natalya Glukhova, I wish you a good day!

There is an active and passive voice - Active Voice and Passive Voice, respectively. In the first option, you do an action or someone else does it himself, that is, it is an active action. For example: Masha goes to school - Masha goes to school. Petya drives a car - Petya drives a car.
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In the passive voice it would be different - Masha is taken to school. That is, an action is performed on a subject or an inanimate object. I was invited - I was invited - that is, I was not invited, but I was invited.

How Passive Voice Is Formed

Let's see how the Passive voice is formed according to the scheme: Creatures. + Be (am, is, are) + V3. That is, the verb to be and the third form of the verb are put.

Examples

affirmative sentences

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I'm invited- action above animate object and time Present Simple. In English it will be like this: I am invited.
You are invited— You are invited.
She is invited— She is invited.
He is invited— He is invited.
Important to remember that only the third form, V3, is always used in Passive Voice. Or the ending -ed is added to the verb if it falls into the category of regular ones. For convenience, we have a table of irregular verbs - Irregular Verbs, which you can see here:. Just in the Participle II column is the third form - V3.
Also important that in the passive voice the pronouns do not change. For example, her invite - she is invited. That is, it is not HER, but SHE.

Interrogative sentences

To ask a question in the passive voice, you need to use the following formula:
To be + Creatures. +V3?
Are the houses built every year? Are houses built every year?
Are you invited everywhere? Are you invited everywhere?

Negative sentences

Creatures. + Be + not + V3
German is (to be) not spoken (V3) everywhere. German is not spoken everywhere.

It's important to know that Future Perfect Continuous Passive, Present Perfect Continuous Passive and Past Perfect Continuous Passive do not exist - Perfect forms are used instead. And instead of Future Continuous Passive, Future Simple is put.
Timestamp in Passive Voice
For convenience, we suggest that you look at the table using tenses in the passive voice.

Lots of examples to reinforce:

Present Simple Passive

He is called every day. They call him every day.
Homework is done. Homework done
Tickets are bought. Tickets are booked.

Present Progressive Passive: to be (is, are, am) + Ving + V3

A new big house is being built now. A new big house is being built now.
I am being given a glass of milk now. Now they give me a glass of milk.

Present Perfect Passive: Have/has + been + V3

This work has just been started - The work has just been started
I have just been invited - I have just been invited

Past Simple Passive: Was/were + V3

The book was written by Alisa. The book was written by Alice.
These apples were bought by Julia. These apples were bought by Julia.

Past Continuous Passive: Was/were + being + V3

I was being asked a question when you came home - I was asked a question just
when you came home.
The car was being washed when I arrived. The car was washed just when I arrived.

Past Perfect Passive: Had + Been + V3

When we came home breakfast had been cooked already. When we got home, tomorrow was already ready.
Had the song been sung by the time she returned? Was the song written by the time it came?

Future Passive: Will + have/has + V3

They will be met by me. They will be met by me.
I will be wondered. I will be surprised.

Future Perfect Passive:

By the time we return the shop will have been opened yet. By the time we arrive, the store will already be open.
Will everything have been prepared by 7 p.m.? Will everything be ready by 7 pm?