Question

He has put the ball in the box. (change the voice)
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Answer 1

Question:-

Change the voice of the given sentence

• He has put the ball in the box.

Answer:-

• The ball has been put by him in the box

Explore more:-

• 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

• 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.

Changing Sentence from Active to Passive voice:-

Active :- Sheela writes letter

Passive:- A letter is written by Sheela.

Note how the form has changed:-

• The Object of the Verb in Active Voice (a letter) becomes the Subject of the Verb in the passive voice

• The Subject in the Active Voice (Sheela) 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 (write

Answer 2

Question:-

Change the voice of the given sentence.

➯ He has put the ball in the box.

Answer:-

The ball has been put in the box by him.

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What is Voice of a verb?

The voice of a verb expresses whether the subject in the sentence has performed or received the action. There are two types of voices, Active Voice and Passive Voice.

• Active Voice:- It is the form of the verb which means the action is performed by the subject in a sentence.
• Ex: The author wrote several books.

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Subject Object

• Passive Voice:- Here, the action of the verb is done to the subject from/by the object in a sentence.
• Ex: Several books were written by the author.
• In this sentence, the the subject receives the action of the verb.

Rules:-

1. Identify the Subject, Verb and object in the sentence.

2. Interchange the object and subject with each other.

3. Change the base verb into the past participle form of the verb.

4. While changing the voice, the pronoun used in the sentence also changes, like:

• I → Me
• We → Us
• They → Them
• He → Him
• She → Her
• You remains unchanged
• It remains unchanged

5. Use suitable helping verb according to the tense.

Some examples:-

Active- Jane paints pictures

Passive- Pictures are painted by Jane.

Active- I made a cake.

Passive- A cake was made by me.

Active- The teacher will inform it to us.

Passive- It will be informed to us by the teacher.