ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE - ENGLISH GRAMMAR

Powerpoint on Active and passive Voice, which has illustrations, pictures, tabular content and exercises, with plenty and helpful examples

1. THERE ARE TWO SPECIAL FORMS OF VERBS :

2. The subject of the sentence performs the action expressed in the verb . Here “the teacher” is the subject of the sentence and she is doing the action of giving the homework. Hence this sentence is in active voice. ACTIVE VOICE For example: The teacher gave homework to Ram.

3. The subject does not perform the action expressed in the verb. It receives the action named in the verb. Here “Ram” is the subject but he is not giving the homework. “Ram” here is receiving the homework. Hence this sentence is in Passive voice. PASSIVE VOICE For example: Ram was given homework by the teacher. So much homework to do…

4. COMMON RULES FOR CHANGING A SENTENCE FROM ACTIVE TO PASSIVE VOICE: 1) The subject of the Active voice sentence becomes the object of the passive voice sentence and vice versa. This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC

5. 2) According to the tense of the active voice use auxiliary verb of passive voice.

6. 3) Always put the main verb into past participle form.

7. SENTENCES TO PRACTICE

8. The Pronouns (when these act as subject) are changed as given below: Subject Object I becomes me We becomes us You becomes you She becomes her He becomes him They becomes them It becomes it Who becomes whom

9. Note:  Sentences given in the following tenses cannot be changed into passive voice: 1. Present Perfect Continuous. 2. Past Perfect Continuous. 3. Future Continuous. 4. Future Perfect Continuous.

10. The following table gives the form of the verb ‘see’ in Passive Voice in the various Tenses: Tense Chart (Passive Voice’) Tense Indefinite Continuous Perfect Present is/am/are + verb in third form is seen am seen are seen is/am/are + being + verb in third form is being seen am being seen are being seen has/have + been + verb in third form has been seen have been seen Past was/were + verb in third form was seen were seen was/were + being + verb in third form was being seen were being seen had + been + verb in third form had been seen Future will/shall + be + verb in third form will be seen shall be seen — No change will/shall + have been + verb in third form will have been seen shall have been seen

11. EXERCISE:  We teach Maths.  Do you keep a cat?  She doesn’t ring the bell.  I am cooking the beans.  You are not watching TV.  Are they selling books?  We have solved the sums.  He has not fed the cow.  Have we learnt the lessons?  Bell invented the phone.