Boys were eaten by him
voice change
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Explanation:
He ate boys.
Boys were eaten by him
And)He ate boys
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An action or information can be expressed in a sentence.
In English the sentences are active or passive.
Voice:-
Voice is the form of the verb which donates whether the subject does the work or something is done to the subject.
There are two types of voice:-
- Active voice
- Passive voice
Active voice:-
- When subject does something in a sentence it is said to be in Active voice.
Subject + Verb + Object
Passive voice:-
- When something had done to the substance in a sentence it is said to be in Passive voice.
Object + Verb + By + Subject
Rules for changing active voice into passive voice:-
⭐️The object of the verb is changed to the subject position and the subject to the object position.
⭐️Verb in active voice is changed into its Passive form(Past participle form).
⭐️ While changing we have to aware of Verb.
⭐️ In active voice the subject is initial position .
⭐️In passive voice the object is in initial position .
⭐️The object in active voice becomes subject in passive voice.
⭐️The subject in active voice becomes object in passive voice.
⭐️Verbs in present continuous tense, past continuous tense and future continuous tense cannot be changed into passive voice.
⭐️In passive voice, 'by' is placed before the object
⭐️.If there are modals in the sentence, then the form is modal+be+pastparticiple modal+be+pastparticiple modal.
⭐️The pronouns in the active are also changed accordingly like I becomes me, they becomes them etc.
⭐️For order making sentences, the passive form is let+object+be+pastparticiple let+object+be+pastparticiple let+object+be+pastparticiple .
Active and Passive Voice :-
- verb(s) - is/am/are + verb(ed)
- verb(ed) - was/were verb(ed)
- will + V1 - will be verb(ed)
- is/am/are gerund - is/am/are being verb(ed)
- was/were gerund - was/were being verb(ed)
- has/have verb(ed) - had/have been verb(ed)
- had verb(ed) - had been verb(ed)
- will have verb(ed) - would be verb(ed)
- would V1 - would be verb(ed)
- would have verb(ed) - would have been verb(ed)
- Modal V1 - modal be verb(ed)
- to V1 - to be verb(ed)
- to have verb(ed) - to have been verb(ed)
- gerund - being verb(ed)
We usually use the passive voice
- For emphasis
Ex:- A tree in out garden was uprooted by the strom.
Here the stress is on the fact that the tree in the garden was uprooted rather than on the storm.
- When the identity of the subject is not clear or not known.
Ex:- The glass window pane was broken (By some one)
- Some sentences in the active voice have two objects .
- The direct object answers the question Whom or What.
- The indirect object answers the question of To whom,or For whom.
Ex:- Sita drew a map for geetha.
- Here a map answer that question What and is the object.
- Geetha answers the question for whom and is the Indirect object.