 In the passive voice the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the doer) of the action denoted by the verb.Some languages, such as English and Spanish, use a "periphrastic" passive voice; that is, it is not a single word form, but rather a construction making use of other word forms.Specifically, it is made up of a form of the auxiliary verb "to be" and a past participle of the main verb.