Active voice or passive with DO or passive with IO. The Prize was awarded to our team by the organisers
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Voice refers to the verb in a sentence.
A sentence is said to be in Active voice if the subject does some action, as in: [1] John kicks the football. The subject ` John` acts. He `kicks` the football.
A sentence is said to be in Passive voice if the subject is acted upon, or, is Passive while the action is done to it, as in: ` The football is kicked by John`. The subject ` The football` is acted upon. It is Passive. It `is kicked` by John.
The verb can be in any of the twelve tenses, the four forms of the Present tense- the Simple present, the Present continuous, the Present perfect and the Present perfect continuous. Similarly, the Past tense has the four forms- the Simple past, the Past continuous, the Past perfect, the Past perfect continuous. The Future tense also has four forms: the Simple future, the Future continuous, the Future perfect and the Future perfect continuous. So, we have to keep in mind the tense of the verb when we change from Active voice to Passive voice.
Now, we know that verbs also have four forms: the present tense form, the past tense form and the present participle and the past participle forms. For example, the verb ` sit` has the four forms: sit, sat, sitting and sat. The verb `hide` has the four forms: hide, hid, hiding and hidden. [We form the continuous and perfect tenses using the present and past participles]. Similarly, the helping, or, auxiliary verbs also have four forms. The helping verbs are [a] `to be`- is, am, are, was, were and being and been. Of these, `is`, `am` and `are` are Present tense forms, whereas, `was` and `were` are the Past tense forms. `Being` is the Present participle and `been` is the Past participle form.
[b] Of the forms of ` to have`- `have`, `has`, `had` and` having`; `have and `has` are Present tense forms and `had` is the Past tense and also the Past participle form. `Having` is the Present participle.
The participle forms are used in forming the Passive of sentences in the Continuous and Perfect tense forms.
Let us look at the structure of the tenses in a few illustrative sentences.
`He kicks the football`. `He does his home work`.
`I kick the football`.
In these sentences the verb is in the Present tense. It is seen that the structure is [Verb + [s] / [es]].
`I am watching T.V. ` `He is watching T.V. ` `They are watching T.V. `, in which the verb is in the Present continuous tense. It is seen that the structure of the Present continuous is: [is / am / are + verb + ing].
`I have watched T.V`. `He has spoken to the teacher`. In these sentences the verb is in the Present perfect tense and its general structure is: [has / have + past participle]. By changing the helping verbs in the continuous and perfect forms to their corresponding Past tense forms we get the corresponding Past tense forms, the Past continuous and the Past perfect, as in: `I was watching T.V`. `He was watching T.V`. `They were watching T.V`. for the Past continuous and `I had watched T.V` and `He had watched T.V.` for the Past perfect. The structure of the Past continuous is: [was/ were + verb + ing] and the structure of the Past perfect is: [had +past participle].
it is a sentence of passive voice