Turn the following sentence into passive: The gardener waters the flowers every evening.
Answers
The change in the sentence, The gardener waters the flowers every evening into passive voice is as follows :
Active: The gardener waters the flowers every evening.
Passive: The flowers are watered by the gardener every evening.
Explanation :
- Here in an active sentence, Subject - The gardener, active verb - waters, and object -the flowers.
- In a passive sentence, the object of active voice- the flowers- becomes the subject, and the subject of active voice, the gardener, becomes the object.
Active Voice:
1. In Active Voice, the subject acts; hence it is called Active Voice.
2. In Active Voice, we are interested in the real subject, i.e., the doer of an action.
3. Agent/doer of the action is to be made prominent and occupies the subject's place. Hence subject does something.
Passive Voice:
- In Passive Voice Subject (person/thing) is Passive. Hence it is called Passive Voice.
- In Passive Voice, we are not interested in the real subject but in the action done.
- In Passive Voice, the subject is the sufferer or receiver of an action. Hence something is done to the subject. Therefore, it occupies the place in the Predicate.
Structures :
Active: He plucks the flowers.
1. Present Simple:
is/are/am + past participle.
The flowers are plucked by him.
2. Present Continuous : is/are/am + being + past participle.
The flowers are being plucked by him.
3. Present Perfect: has/have + been + past participle.
The flowers have been plucked by him.
4. Past Simple: was/were + past participle.
The flowers were plucked by him.
5. Past Continuous: was/were +being+ past participle.
The flowers were being plucked by him.
6. Past Perfect: had been + past participle
The flowers had been plucked by him.
7. Future Indefinite: will/shall + be + past participle.
The flowers will be plucked by him.
8. Future Perfect: will/shall+have+been + past participle.
The flowers will have been plucked by him.
Modals:Can/could/may/might/should etc. + be + past participle.
The flowers can be plucked by him.
Subject in Active Voice → becomes in Passive Voice
I → by me
We → by us
You → by you
He → by him
She → by her
They → by them
Object in Passive voice → becomes subject in Active Voice
Me → I
Us → We
You → You
Him → He
Her → She
Them → They
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Answer:
The passive voice is : -
The flowers are watered every evening by the gardener.
Explanation :
- In the above sentence 'the flowers' was an object in active voice but it has turned into subject in passive voice and placed first.
- Second 'are' is a helping verb, it has used according to the tense and it is a simple present tense, 'waters' confirms it. 'Am', 'is' and 'are' are auxiliary verbs of Present Indefinite Tense in Passive Voice. Here 'are' has been used for subject 'the flowers', it is a plural number.
- 'Watered' is a past participle form of 'water'. We can understand that past participle form is used after helping verb in passive voice.
- 'Every, evening' are other words in the given sentence. 'By' is a preposition and it is used for person. 'The garder' was subject in active voice but it is now object in passive voice. Personal preposition, by has been used for 'the gardener'.
- Example : I bought it for you. ( active ) It was brought for you by me. ( passive )
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