Voice Changing Part-1

Rules of changing Voice

***Voice refers to the form of verb that shows or makes it clear whether the subject acts or acted upon.It is an important section of English grammar that helps the learners to understand English language.

 Voice is of two kinds

1.  Active Voice      2.  Passive Voice

Active voice: When Subject works by himself the verb becomes of Active voice

Example: I eat rice.

Passive voice: When verb is given importance instead of subject it becomes Passive voice

Example: Rice is eaten by me.

Rules of making Passive voice from Active voice are given below.

***All the objects will be turned into subjects and subjects will be object in case of changing active to passive voice.

Active  voice: He (sub) likes you (ob).

Passive voice: You (sub) are liked by him (ob).

*** You have to use preposition before object while  changing from active voice to passive voice.

Active voice: I knew him

Passive voice: He was known to  (preposition) me.

       Active voice: We play football.

       Passive voice: Football is played by (preposition) us.

***Principal verb of passive voice will always be in past participle form.

***According to verb of tense auxiliary verb will be used.

Present Indefinite Tense

*** In case of changing Active voice to Passive voice if the sentence is Present Indefinite Tense according to subject am / is /are  are used.

Structure: Sub+am/is/are+vpp+pre.+ob.

 Active voice: I do my duty

        Passive voice: My duty is done by me.

 Active voice: He teaches me English.

 Passive voice: I am taught English by him.

    Active voice: He catches birds

    Passive voice: Birds are caught by him.

  

Interrogative Sentence

Am/is/are+sub+vpp+pre+ob?

    Active voice: Do you like it?

    Passive voice: Is it liked by you?

   Active voice: What do you want?

    Passive voice: What is wanted by you?

   Active voice: Whom do you want?

    Passive voice: Who is wanted by you?

We have to remember these rules for changing voice

Sbject	Object.
I	Me
We	Us
He	Him
She	Her
They	Them
You	You
Who	Whom

 

More examples:

    Active voice: A brave man does his duty.

    Passive voice: His duty is done by a brave man.

   Active voice: I see him come.

    Passive voice: He is seen to come by me.

    Active voice:  They play cricket.

    Passive voice: Cricket is played by them.

Present Continuous Tense

*** In case of changing Active voice to Passive voice if the sentence is Present Continuous Tense according to subject am being / is being /are beimg  are used.

Structure: Sub+am/is/are+being+vpp+pre.+ob.

   Active voice: They are playing football.

    Passive voice: Football is being played by them.

   Active voice: He is making tea.

    Passive voice: Tea is being made by him.

   Active voice: I am watching a movie.

    Passive voice: A movie is being watched by me.

Interrogative Sentence

Am/is/are+sub+being+vpp+pre+ob?

   Active voice: Is he catching fish?

    Passive voice: Is fish being caught by him?

   Active voice: Are you writing a letter?

    Passive voice: I s letter being written by him?

   Active voice: What are you doing?

    Passive voice: What is being done by you?

Negative sentence

Structure: Sub+am/is/are+not+being+vpp+pre.+ob.

   Active voice: He is not doing the work.

    Passive voice: The work is not being done by him.

   Active voice: They are not putting the things right

    Passive voice: The things are not being put right by them.

Present Perfect Tense

*** In case of changing Active voice to Passive voice if the sentence is Present Perfect Tense according to subject have/has been  are used.

Structure: Sub+have/has been+vpp+pre.+ob.

   Active voice: I have done the work.

    Passive voice: The work has been done by me.

   Active voice: We have done our duty.

    Passive voice: Our duty has been done by us.

 Interrogative Sentence

Have/has+sub+been+vpp+pre+ob?

   Active voice: Have you done your work?

    Passive voice: Has your work been done by you?

   Active voice: What have you done?

    Passive voice: What has been done by you?

   Active voice: Who has done it?

    Passive voice: By whom has it been done?

   Active voice: Has she done her homework?

    Passive voice: Has her homework been done by her?

Present Perfect Continuous Tense

*** In case of changing Active voice to Passive voice if the sentence is Present Perfect  Continuous Tense according to subject have/has been being  are used.

    Structure: Sub+have/has been+being+vpp+pre.+ob.

   Active voice: We have been doing the work since morning.

    Passive voice: The work has been being done by us.

   Active voice: John has been reading the novel for two hours.

    Passive voice: The novel has been being read by John for two hours.