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    This document discusses the differences between active and passive voice in sentences. It provides examples of sentences written in active voice, where the subject performs the action, and passive voice, where the subject receives the action. The document then lists rules for converting sentences from active to passive voice, such as interchanging the subject and object and changing the verb to the past participle form. A table is also included that shows how to change verbs into the passive voice form for different tenses.

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    ACITVE AND PASSIVE VOICE

    A sentence can be written in either active voice or passive voice without changing
    the meaning of it.
    When the verb in a sentence shows that the subject is the doer of the action, the verb
    is in the active voice.
    Examples:
    1. Children painted these pictures. (Children subject; painted verb;
    pictures object)
    2. James writes a letter (James subject; writes verb; letter object)
    When the verb in a sentence shows that the subject is not the doer of the action, the
    verb is in the passive voice. (Generally you will find by in the sentence. If by is
    not there, you can put a question Who?, you will get an answer.)
    Examples:
    1. These pictures were painted by children: (pictures subject; painted verb;
    children - object
    2. A letter is written by James (letter subject, written verb; James Object)
    Rules for conversion from Active to Passive Voice
    1.
    2.
    3.
    4.
    5.

    The subject and object are interchanged


    The preposition BY is added before the object
    The verb is changed to past participle (3rd form of verb)
    A new auxiliary is added to the Past Participle form of verb.
    If the subject or the object in an active voice sentence is a pronoun (I, we,
    you, he, she, they, it) it changes: (I-me; we-us; you-you; he-him; she-her;
    they-them; it-it) and vice-versa. e.g. I wrote a letter A letter was written by
    me. The prefect does keep accusing me daily I am being accused by the
    prefect daily.
    6. If the subject in the active voice sentence is unknown or unimportant or
    obvious, by + object is omitted. We make butter from cows milk. Butter is
    made from cows milk.
    7. If the verb in the active voice sentence has a modal in it, the verb is changed
    to modal + be + the past participle. e.g. Rajesh can lift this box. This box
    can be lifted by Rajesh. We should obey the rules. The rules should be
    obeyed.
    8. When there are two objects, only one object is interchanged. The second
    object remains unchanged. (He told me a story He- subject; me object 1;
    a story object 2) ( I was told a story by him; A story was told to me by him)

    The table below shows how the verb is changed into its passive voice form in
    different tenses.
    Tense
    The simple present
    The present continuous
    The present perfect
    The simple past
    The past continuous
    The past perfect
    The simple future
    The Future continuous
    The Future in the past

    Active Voice
    He eats an apple
    He is eating an apple.

    Passive Voice
    An apple is eaten by him.
    An apple is being eaten by
    him.
    He has eaten an apple.
    An apple has been eaten
    by him.
    He ate an apple.
    An apple was eaten by
    him.
    He was eating an apple
    An apple was being eaten
    by him
    He had eaten an apple
    An apple had been eaten
    by him
    He will eat an apple
    An apple will be eaten by
    him.
    He will be eating an apple. An apple will have been
    eaten by him.
    He would have eaten an An apple would have been
    apple
    eaten by him

    Note: Some of the sentences like sentences constructed using auxiliary


    verbs( Hariharan is a good boy); perfect continuous tenses ( in all the three time
    periods Present, Past, Future) (My room mate has been copying my homework)
    and intransitive verbs ( I go to temple or she has gone to the market) cannot be
    converted into passive form .

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