Question

Change the voice of verbs1)He sells banana in the Market

Answer 1

ANSWER :

• ✠ Active Voice :-

➨ He sells banana in the market.

• ✠ Passive Voice :-

➨ Banana is sold in the market by him.

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NOTE :

• ✎ The given sentence is in Simple Present Tense.

• ✎ Sentence Structure of Simple Present Tense in Active Voice :-

★ Subject + Present form of Verb + Object

• ✎ Sentence Structure of Simple Present Tense in Passive Voice :-

★ Subject + Am/Is/Are + Past Participle form of Verb + Preposition + Object

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MORE TO KNOW :

❖ Voice :-

• ➯ In English grammar, Voice refers to a form of verb which shows whether what is denoted by the subject does something or has something done to it.

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❖ Types of Voice :-

• [1] Active Voice.

• [2] Passive Voice.

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❖ Active Voice :-

• ➯ Active Voice refers to the voice that a sentence has a subject which acts upon its verb.

• ➯ In Active Voice, the subject is the doer of the action. The subject may be a person or a thing who does something. The verb in Active Voice shows the action of the subject.

• ➯ Active Voice is so called because the subject of a sentence of Active Voice perform/ does/acts upon the action shows by the verb.

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❖ Passive Voice :-

• ➯ Passive Voice refers to the voice that the subject of a sentence is a recipient of the action of the verb.

• ➯ Passive Voice represents a sentence where the subject of the sentence receives the action, performed by the verb, i.e., the verb's action is done or performed by the subject.

• ➯ Passive Voice is so called because the subject of a sentence of Passive Voice suffers/receives the action of verb instead of directly acting upon the verb's action.

Answer 2

Changing Sentence from Active to Passive voice:-

Active : He sells banana in the Market

Passive : Banana is sold by him in the market

❒ Note how the form has changed:-

• The Object of the Verb in Active Voice (banana) becomes the Subject of the Verb in the passive voice.

• The Subject in the Active Voice (He) becomes the Object of the Verb in the Passive voice. And the Preposition by has been used before it.

• An appropriate form of the Verb to be (is) has been used followed by the Third form(Past Participle) of the Verb (sell)

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❍ Explore more:

★ What is Active voice?

• A verb is said to be in the active voice when the subject of the verb is the doer of the action or acts or is active.

➺ Examples:

1. He helps the poor.
2. A poet writes poem

★ What is Passive voice?

• A verb is said to be in the Passive voice when the subject of the verb doesn't act but receives the action by someone or something.

➺ Examples:

1. The poor is helped by him.
2. Poems are written by a poet.