Question

change into passive voice
they would certainly help us​

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Change into passive voice:

• "They would certainly help us"

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• "We would be certainly helped by them."

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What types of Voice:

There are two types of voice:

• Active voice
• passive Voice

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In an active form, subject acts.

We can define this as -

• An active voice is a sentence in which a verb shows that subject does an action.

Active Form:-

• Subject + Verb + Object
• Jeremy + washes + the dishes.
• The professor + teaches + the students.

Characteristics of active voice:

We shall see the characteristics of this form. In an active voice :-

• The subject of a sentence in an active form is at the starting of the sentence.
• The subject is followed by the form of ‘to be’, verb, and object.
• We can say that verb is in the Active Voice.
• An active voice tells clearly about the actor who has done it.

Pattern of sentence:

The pattern of a sentence in this voice is:

• Subject+ Verb+ Object

Example with explanation -

• My son has built a website.

In the above sentence, we have a subject (my son), a verb (has built), and the object of the verb (website).

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In passive voice, the action is done.

We define this form as-

• Passive voice is the sentence in which the form of verb shows that an action is done to the subject.

Passive Form:

• Subject + be + past participle + by + Agent
• The dishes + were + washed (+ by + John).
• The students + are + taught + by + Sally.

Characteristics of passive voice:

The Characteristics of this form are -

• When we change the sentence from active to passive voice, the object becomes the subject.
• We can use sentences with only transitive verbs in passive voice that is we can change the sentences having objects into this voice.
• This form may or may not tell clearly about the actor who has done it.
• To make clear the action who has done it we should add ‘by’.

Pattern of sentence :

The pattern of a sentence in this voice-

• Subject+ form of ‘to be’ + past participle of verb+ by + object.

Example with explanation:

• A website has been built.

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• A website has been built by my son.

In the above sentence, we have-

• the direct object of the verb (a website)
• the verb is in passive form (has been built)
• The subject is missing but we can add ‘by’ and make the subject clear.

We can have a passive and active form of following tenses with examples of three persons to understand easily.

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