Subject Teaching:Subject Exercises:1.2.3-4. /13.14-15 /Multiple Choice Exercises:PDF Worksheets: / / / / /Put following active sentences into the passive voice.1. Someone has already paid the electrician for his work.2. They taught him French and gave him a dictionary.3. When we first met, they had already offered me a job at the bank.4.
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A man requested the stranger to leave the meeting.5. A young woman asked the rest of us to be there at eight.6.
They had eaten all the dinner before they finished the conversation.7. Who wrote it?8. The author has written a special edition for children.9. Did he offend you?10.
Why didn’t they fix the roof?11. The burglars had cut a huge hole in the steel door.12. The organizers will exhibit the paintings till the end of the month.13. When did they ring the church bells?14. Does listening to music disturb you?
What is Voice?“A Grammar of Contemporary English” defines Voice as “voice is a grammatical category which makes it possible to view the action of a sentence in two ways, without change in the facts reported”. One and the same idea can often be expressed in two different ways, by means of an active, and by means of a passive construction. Active VoiceActive voice is used to indicate the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb. With the active voice, you learn ‘who’ or ‘what’ is responsible for the action at the beginning of the sentence.
In other words, the subject performs the action denoted by the verb. With help of active voice more powerful sentences can be build than passive voice. Use of active voice:1. Active voice is used in a clause whose subject expresses the agent of the main verb.2. Subject can be easily identified by asking ‘who’ or ‘what’ to the verb.3. Sentences are short and easily understandable.Example:John wrote the letter.-John ( subject) performs the action denoted by the verb ( write). Passive VoiceIn Passive voice the sentence focus on object i.e.
Who/what is receiving the action and not on who/what is performing the action. In passive voice, the actor of the of the verb (action) is either understood at the end of the sentence or maybe not told. The passive voice is used in writing facts, truth, lab or technical reports in which the actor is not important or unknown, but the action happening on the object is very important.
Use of passive voice:1. It is used if it doesn‘t need to know or we don‘t know the actor performing the job.2. In the end of the clause or sentence “by” is prefixed to know the actor performing the job.3. It is used if we are more interested in the job than the actors who work.Example:The letter was written by John.- letter receives the action denoted by the write (verb). How to identify the active / passive voice?Ask who/what performed the action(verb)? - if the ‘ who or what is at the beginning of the sentence, the sentence is active voice.Example:Jack is eating the apple.Question will be: Who is eating the apple?Look for the word “ by”, if present it is passive voice.
Active/Passive voice using Modals:The modal verbs consist of will, would, can, could, shall, should, may, might, must which areused with main verbs to express ability, probability, obligation, advice etc.To convert active voice having modal into passive voice, auxiliary verb “be” is added after modal in sentence. Rules for Active to Passive conversionTenseActive voicePassive voiceSimple Present TenseSubject + infinitive + objectE.g. The grocer sells fresh vegetables.S + to be + past participle + by objectE.g. Fresh vegetables are sold by the grocer.Present Continuous TenseSubject + to be (is, am, are) being + present participle + objectE.g. My boss is giving many assignments.S + to be (is, am, are) + being + past participle + by objectE.g. Many assignments are being given by my boss.Present Perfect TenseSubject + has/have + past participle + objectE.g.
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I have taken him out.S + have/has been + past participle + by objectE.g. He has been taken out by me.Simple Past TenseSubject + past participle + objectE.g. He built a large house.S + was/were + past participle + by objectE.g. A large house was built by him.Past Continuous TenseS + was/were + being + past participle + objectE.g She was cooking dinner.S + was/were + being + past participle +by objectE.g. Dinner was being cooked by her.Past Perfect TenseSubject + had + past participle + objectE.g. She had posted the letter.S + had been + past participle + by objectE.g. The letter had been posted by her.Simple Future TenseSubject + will + infinitive + objectE.g.
I will give you a present.S + will + be + past participle + by objectE.g. A present will be given to you by me.Future Perfect TenseSubject + would + infinitive + objectE.g. The doctor shall have examined ten patients by 10 O’clock.S + would + be + past participle + by objectE.g.
Ten patients will have been examined by 10 O’clock by the doctor.Rules for Pronouns in Active to Passive conversionActive voicePassive voiceImeyouyouweustheythemititPronoun number and person tablePersonIIIIIINumberSingularI - amyou - arehe,she,it - isJohn,Sara - isPluralwe - areyou - arethey - are.