Lead vs led

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Is this the correct usage?The sales team is led by Jackson. It's not past but current and all I find mentions led as being past or past participle.Thank you!denise

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AnonymousIs this the correct usage?
The sales team is led by Jackson.

Yes, it is correct.

AnonymousIt's not past but current and all I find mentions led as being past or past participle.

Yes, it is current (present).

It is present tense, passive voice.

We use passive voice when the subject in the sentence is not the person or thing that performs the action in the sentence.

In you sentence, the active voice is this:

Jackson leads the sales team. (Jackson is the person who does the action - that is, lead. The sales team is the object - that is, what Jackson leads.)

In the passive voice, we switch the object and put the subject with the preposition "by", and change the verb to show passive voice. The passive voice verb is the verb "be" and the past participle of the main verb.

Your sentence:

The sales team is (present of "be") led (past participle of the verb "lead") by Jackson (the person who does the action.).

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