ACTIVE & PASSIVE VOICE in English Grammar
ACTIVE & PASSIVE VOICE
FAQ:
- What are active and passive sentences?
What is active and passive voice in English grammar?
What is an active passive voice?
What is the meaning of passive and active voice with examples?
How do you change a sentence from active to passive?
What is active voice and passive voice with examples?
What is an example of a passive verb?
What is an active voice in grammar?
The Active Voice: the subject is the doer of the action:
Active Voice > subject verb object
Cats eat rats.
Everybody drinks water.
The Passive Voice: the subject receives the action of the verb:
Note: The object of the active verb becomes the subject of the Passive
verb:
Passive Voice < Subject verb object
Rats are eaten by cats.
Water is drunk by everybody.
Active & Passive Voice {ACTIVE & PASSIVE VOICE in English Grammar} |
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| If the sentence is in | ACTIVE | PASSIVE |
| Present simple | No. H.V. To convert | we use Is, Am, Are, + V3 |
| Present Cont. | Is, Am, Are +ing V1 | To convert we use Is, Am, Are, + Being +V3 |
| Present Perfect | Have, has +V3 | To convert we use Have Has + Been +V3 |
| Past simple | No. H.V. | To convert we use Was, Were, + V3 |
| Past Cont. | Was, Were +ingV1 | To convert we use Was, Were, + Being + V3 |
| Past Perfect | Had +V3 | To convert we use Had + Been + V3 |
| Modals | Will, shall, can To convert we use will, | May, should etc. shall, can + be + V3 |
| Indefinite Pronoun | Someone, they | To convert we do not use people, nobody etc. |
ACTIVE & PASSIVE VOICE in English Grammar
Te Indefinite Pronoun
When do & does is used to Frame question Is, am, are used to Frame question
When did is used to Frame question Was, were used to Frame question
When the subject is not used the agent is used
When ‘who’ is used To convert we use ‘Whom’
When order request is used To convert we use ‘let’
Directions: Convert the following sentences into the passive voice.
1. They make shoes in the factory.
2. People must not leave bicycles on the road.
3. They built that house in 1934.
4. The students will finish the course by July.
5. They are repairing the streets this month.
6. They make these tools of plastic.
7. They have finished the new product design.
8. They were cooking dinner when I arrived.
9. Smith painted ‘Red Sunset’ in 1986.
10. Did the plan interest you?
11. They had finished the preparations by the time the guests arrived.
12. You should take care when working on electrical equipment.
13. They are going to perform Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony next
weekend.
14. Someone will speak Japanese at the meeting.
15. Karen is going to prepare the refreshments.
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