we are beaking the bread (change in voice)
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Change the voice of the following sentence:
Correct sentence:
- We are baking the breads. (Active voice)
- The bread is being baked by us. (passive voice)
★ What is Active voice?
- 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.
Examples:
- He helps the poor.
- A poet writes poem
★ What is Passive voice?
- 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.
Examples:
- The poor is helped by him.
- Poems are written by a poet.
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)
Given sentence: We are baking the bread.
Passive voice: The bread is being baked by us.
- The given sentence is in present continuous tense.
- And while changing the voice of a sentence to its Passive voice which is in present continuous tense, it should be formed in the structure: Object + am/is/are + being + past participle form of verb + by + subject.
- According to the given sentence, the object part is "the bread", the subject is "we" and the verb part is "are baking"- (bake)
- The third form of the verb "bake" is baked.
- In passive voice, the subject pronoun "we" changes to "us".
- Now, by arranging all these in the structure, we get the answer - The bread is being baked by us.
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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!
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.
(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).
Here, the object (the deer) performs the action to the subject (the lion) or we can say that the subject receives the action.