The passive voice focuses on the action or the object, not the person doing it. 🔹 Active vs Passive: • Active: The chef cooks the meal. (sujet = celui qui fait l'action) • Passive: The meal is cooked by the chef. (sujet = celui qui subit l'action) 🔹 Formation of the passive: Subject + verb TO BE (conjugated) + past participle (+ by + agent) 🔹 Present Simple Passive: • Thiéboudienne is eaten all over Senegal. • English is spoken in many countries. • These shoes are made in China. 🔹 Past Simple Passive: • The letter was written by Aminata. • The match was won by the Senegal team. • The houses were built in 2010. 🔹 How to transform Active → Passive: 1. The object of the active sentence becomes the subject. 2. Add the correct form of TO BE. 3. Put the verb in past participle form. 4. (Optional) add 'by + agent'. Example: Active: The teacher corrects the exercises. (present) Passive: The exercises are corrected by the teacher. Active: They built this school in 1990. (past) Passive: This school was built in 1990.

📝 Transformation practice: • Active: Farmers grow rice in the Casamance. Passive: Rice is grown in the Casamance (by farmers). • Active: The students clean the classroom every Friday. Passive: The classroom is cleaned every Friday (by the students). • Active: Léopold Sédar Senghor wrote those poems. Passive: Those poems were written by Léopold Sédar Senghor. • Active: Someone stole my bicycle yesterday. Passive: My bicycle was stolen yesterday. 💡 When to use the passive: • When the 'doer' is unknown: My bag was stolen. • When the 'doer' is obvious: French is spoken in Senegal. • To emphasise the action/result, not the person.