Rewrite the following sentences in passive voice
Answers
Required Answers:
- I shall prepare a sweet dish in the afternoon.
Ans- A sweet dish shall be prepared by me in the afternoon.
- I will talk to you later
Ans- You will be talked to by me later.
- Let him reserve the tables.
Ans- Let the tables be reserved by him.
- We ought to obey traffic rules.
Ans- Traffic rules ought to be obeyed by us.
- I drew a beautiful picture.
Ans- A beautiful picture was drawn by me.
Explanation:
There are two voices in the English Grammar: Active voice and Passive voice.
In active voice, the subject performs the action in the sentence. For example:-
- Diana is playing the violin.
In passive voice, the subject receives the action in the sentence.
- The violin is being played by Diana.
To change the given sentences from active voice to passive voice,
✶ We identify the subject (doer of the action), object (recipient of the action) and the tense of the sentence.
✶ We swap the subject and the object, placing the preposition 'by' before the subject and change the subject to its passive form. For example,
- He → him
- She → her
- They → them
✶ We add an auxiliary verb according to the tense of the sentence and change the verb to its participle. For example,
- Ate → was eaten
- Was playing → was being played
- Had helped → had been helped
And we are done! :D