Changing Passive Voice to Active Voice.
Changing Passive Voice to Active Voice.
While changing Passive Voice
into Active Voice, we must keep in mind all the rules of the Active Voice in
the reverse order. We come across sentences in the Passive Voice without
subject or agent. In this case, supply the appropriate subject.
To decide whether the given passive voice sentence is in passive voice, any one of the following constructions should be present.
To decide whether the given passive voice sentence is in passive voice, any one of the following constructions should be present.
·
1. is, was ,are, were,
am + past participle
·
2. be + past
participle
·
3. being + past
participle
·
4. been + past
participle
·
5. Let ...be + past
participle
Changing Passive Voice to Active Voice.
Passive Voice
|
Active Voice
|
The thief was
finally arrested
|
The police finally
arrested the thief
|
We were taught
grammar
|
The teacher taught
us grammar
|
My purse has been
stolen
|
Somebody has stolen
my purse
|
The patients were
looked after
|
The doctor looked
after the patients
|
Passive
voice / Impersonal passive
Differences between passive voice with by phrase and
impersonal passive:
Compare these
two sentence:
·
Last year, the
Green-India scheme was announced by the Government.
·
Rare plants are found
in Silent Valley.
In the first sentence, the
doer/agent is explicitly mentioned because the doer is important in that
sentence. But in the second sentence it is not so, because either the agent or
doer of the action is too obvious or unknown.
The passive construction is quite common in scientific / technical / business writing. In these types of objective writing the emphasis is usually on the action or process or thing that is described. So the ‘by’ phrase is generally omitted in these writings. It is called Impersonal Passive.
The passive construction is quite common in scientific / technical / business writing. In these types of objective writing the emphasis is usually on the action or process or thing that is described. So the ‘by’ phrase is generally omitted in these writings. It is called Impersonal Passive.
·
They say that might is
right.
It is said that might is right.
It is said that might is right.
·
One finds mosquitoes
everywhere.
Mosquitoes are found everywhere.
Mosquitoes are found everywhere.
·
He gave us a cheque.
A cheque was given to us.
General rules for active voice and passive voice
What Is Voice? What are the Types of Voice?
What Is the Active Voice and Passive Voice?
Active and passive voice Rule with tenses,
Active and passive voice with Imperative Sentences
Active and passive voice Rule with modals
Active and Passive Voice rules - Simple Present tense
Active and Passive Voice – Present Continuous Tense
Active and Passive Voice rules – Present Perfect Tense
Active and Passive Voice rules – Past Indefinite Tense
Active and Passive Voice rules – Past continuous tense
Active and Passive Voice rules – Past perfect tense
Active and Passive Voice rules - Simple future tense
Active and Passive Voice rules Future perfect Tense
How to convert active voice sentence
How to form passive forms of verbs?
Rules for changing Active Voice into Passive Voice:
Changing Passive Voice to Active Voice.
A cheque was given to us.
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