active passive rule
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What is Voice of a verb?
The voice of a verb expresses whether the subject in the sentence has performed or received the action.
Example:
The watchman opens the door.
The door is opened by the watchman.
Types of Voices of Verb
Verbs have two voices (i) Active Voice (ii) Passive Voice
Active Voice – When an action performed by the subject is expressed by the verb, it is an active voice. Active voice is used when more straightforward relation and clarity is required between the subject and the verb.
Active Voice example:
Hens lay eggs.
Birds build nests.
Passive Voice – When the action expressed by the verb is received by the subject, it is passive voice. Passive voice is used when the doer of the action is not known and the focus of the sentence is on the action and not the subject.
Passive Voice Examples:
Eggs are laid by hens.
Nests are built by birds.
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Rules for Active – Passive Voice Conversions
Rule 1. Identify the (S+V+O) Subject, Verb and object in the active sentence to convert to passive voice
Example:
He drives car. (Subject – He, verb – Drives, object – Car)
Rule 2. Interchange the object and subject with each other, i.e. object of the active sentence become the subject of the passive sentence.
Example :
Active voice : She knits sweater. (Subject – She, Verb – Knits, Object – Sweater)
Passive Voice : The sweater is knitted by her. (Object sweater is interchanged with the subject She).
Rule 3. In passive voice sometimes the subject is not used, i.e. the subject in passive voice can be omitted if the sentence without it gives enough meaning.
Example :
Milk is sold in litres
Rule 4. Change the base verb in the active sentence into the past participle ie. third form verb in a passive sentence i.e. preceded by (By, With, to, etc). Base verbs are never used in passive voice sentences.
Example:
Active voice: She prepares dinner.
Passive voice: The dinner is prepared by her.
Active voice: She knows him.
Passive voice: He is known to her.
Active voice: Juice fills the jar.
Passive voice: The jar is filled with juice.
Rule 5. While conversion of Active voice sentence to Passive voice sentence, the pronoun used in the sentence also changes in the following manner.
Rule 6. Use the suitable helping or auxiliary verb (is/am/are/was, etc.). The rules for using auxiliary verbs in passive voice sentences are different for each tense.
Example:
The letter is written by her
A book was not bought by her
Chocolates are being eaten by them.
Note- [except certain exemptions, no passive Voice formation for the following tenses can be formed, Present Perfect Continuous Tense, Past Perfect Continuous Tense, Future Perfect Continuous Tense and Future Continuous Tense]
Answer:
1.) The object of the active becomes the subject of the verb in the passive voice.
The preposition 'by' is put before it.
2.) The main verb of the active sentence changes into past participle.
3.) Changes in pronoun:-
Active Voice Passive voice
I ➡ by me
We ➡ by us
You ➡ by you
He ➡ by him
She ➡ by her
It ➡ by it
They ➡ by them
4.) Changes in tenses from active to passive.
SIMPLE PRESENT: He kills a snake.
A snake is killed by him.
SIMPLE PAST: He killed a snake.
A snake was killed by him.
SIMPLE FUTURE: She will write a letter.
A letter will be written by her.
PRESENT CONTINUOUS: She is singing a song.
A song is being sung by her
PAST CONTINUOUS: She was singing a song.
A song was being sung by her.
PRESENT PERFECT: They have watered the plants.
The plants have been watered by them.
PAST PERFECT: We had helped him.
He had been helped by us.
FUTURE PERFECT: I will have beaten him.
He would have been beaten by me.
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