Question

Rewrite the following sentence to the other voice :
The poem is taught by the teacher.

Answer 1

Answer:

The poem is taught by the teacher.

What to do?

Convert the given sentences to active voice from passive voice.

Required Answer:

The teacher taught the poem.

What do you mean by active voice?

Active voice: When a subject is performing an action and the receiver is an object in the sentence then it is called an active voice.

Format of active voice: Subject + V1 (First verb) + Object

What do you mean by passive voice?

Passive voice: When an object is performing an action and the receiver is a subject in the sentence then it is called a passive voice.

Format of passive voice: Object + am/is/are + V3 + by + subject

Answer 2

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Given sentence: The poem is taught by the teacher.

• It is in passive voice. So, we ought to change the voice to active form.

Active voice: The teacher teaches the poem.

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• The sentence given is in present indefinite tense.
• And while changing a sentence to active voice which is in past indefinite tense, it should be formed in the structure: Subject + present form of verb (v¹) + object.
• According to the given sentence, the subject is "the teacher", the object is "the poem" and the verb is "teach" (is taught).
• Present form of verb 'teach' can be formed as "teaches".
• Hence, by arranging all these in the structure, we got the answer as, The teacher teaches the poem.

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What are voices?

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ It's really a simple topic. ‎In a sentence, to say whether its subject performs the action or whether it receives the action, we define it with voices. There are two types of voices in English grammar.

(1) ACTIVE VOICE:

A sentence is said to be in active voice if it's subject performs the action to the object. Look at the following sentence!

• ${{\underline{{\textsf{\textbf{The\:lion\:chased\:the\:deer.}}}}}}$

In the above sentence, we can find that the subject is lion, and it does the action to the object (the deer), with the verb 'chased'. So it's in active voice as the subject does the action.

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(2) PASSIVE VOICE:

A sentence is said to be in passive voice if the subject receives the action from the object. Now, let's find the passive voice of the example sentence of active voice (The lion chased the deer).

• ${{\underline{{\textsf{\textbf{The\:deer\:was\: chased\:by\:the\:lion.}}}}}}$

Here, the object (the deer) performs the action to the subject (the lion) or we can say that the subject receives the action.

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