my friend gave me a story book (voice change )
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Question :
My friend gave me a story book.
[ Change the voice ]
Answer :
I was given a story book by my friend.
▪Knowledge Booster :-
An action or information can be expressed in a sentence.
In English the sentences are active and 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 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 initial position.
✯ The object in active voice becomes subject in passive voice.
✯ The subject in active voice becomes object in passive voice.
✯ In passive voice, 'by' is placed before the subject.
✯ If there are modal verbs in the sentence, then the form is
➩ modal verb + be + past participle
✯ The pronouns in active voice are also changed accordingly like I becomes me, they becomes them etc.
✯ For order making sentences, the passive form is
➩ let + object + be + past participle
Active and passive voice :-
• verb(s) - am/is/are + verb(ed)
• verb(ed) - was/were + verb(ed)
• will + V1 - will + be + verb(ed)
• am/is/are + gerund - am/is/are + being + verb(ed)
• was/were + gerund - was/were + being + verb(ed)
• have/has + verb(ed) - have/has + been + verb(ed)
• had + verb(ed) - had + been + verb(ed)
• modal + V1 - modal + be + verb(ed)
• to + V1 - to + be + verb(ed)
▪We usually use the passive voice for emphasis.
Example : A tree in our garden was uprooted by the storm.
Here the stress is on the fact that the tree in the garden was uprooted by the storm.
▪ When the identity of the subject is not clear or not known.
Example : I have been invited to their house (By someone)
▪ 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.
Example : Sita drew a map for Geetha.