formula of active and passive voice all formulas past, present and future.
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Active Voice- I draw a sketch.
Active Voice is the most direct and effective way to convey the information. It a simply starts with the Subject (in this case ‘I’who performs the action) followed by the Verb (action)-‘draw’ and then the Object (on whom the action is performed)-sketch. Active Voice is expressed in the simple form of – Subject + Action (Verb) + Object.
Now go through the Passive Voice of the above Active Voice statement.
Passive Voice- A sketch is drawn by me.
Passive Voice conveys the same message as in Active Voice, but it does it in an indirect way. In the Passive Voice the subject becomes “Passive” and the Object gets the prominence. Like in the above Passive Sentence the subject ‘me’ is being acted upon by the object.The meaning of both of the above sentences remains same and they have only structural differences. It’s better to know the rules and Formulae for both Active and Passive Voices, by going through Examples and Exercises.
Structural Formula
For the purpose of deriving a Structural formula for Active and Passive voice, we will study one example sentence in both the voices, written below-
Active Voice- I write a letter.
Passive Voice- A letter is written by me.
First analyze the ‘Active Voice’ statement: “I write a letter” - ‘I’ is the subject, the verb is ‘write’ and the object is ‘letter’.
Therefore, the Structural Formula for Active Voice Statement can be written as- Subject + Verb + Object
Moving on to the Passive statement: “A letter is written by me” - we realize that the Object appears first followed by the Verb and Subject respectively. Therefore, the structural formula for Passive Voice can be given as- Object + Verb + Subject.
Some more Example Sentences of Active and Passive Voices:
ACTIVE VOICE PASSIVE VOICE
I ride a horse. A horse is ridden by me
I eat a pizza. A pizza is eaten by me
He wrote a letter. A letter was written by him
She wore a suit. A suit was worn by her
They called the police. The Police was called by them.
How to Identify Active/Passive Voices
By knowing the order in which the Subject, Verb and Object are placed in a sentence, we can tell whether the sentence is Active or Passive. The rule for placement of subject, Verb and Object in both Active and Passive voice are given below.
Structural Formula For Active Voice-
Subject + Verb + Object
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Structural Formula For Passive Voice-
Object + Verb + Subject
Therefore an Active Voice statement always begins with the Subject, followed by the verb and the Object respectively. On the contrary a Passive Voice statement begins with the Object, followed by the verb and then the Subject at last.
In the further explanations we will go through the rules of writing Active/Passive Voices and also converting Active Voice to Passive Voice and vice versa.