- Let us learn some tenses. but be not tensed.It is very easy.
- Simple present tense. I play football. ( active)
- Know here play is a transitive verb. It has an object .football.
- In passive voice the object becomes the subject.
- The football is played by me.
- Present continuous: I am playing football.(active)
- The football is being played by me.(passive)
- Present Perfect: I have played football.(active)
- The football has been played by me.(passive)
- present perfect continuous: I have been playing football.( active)
- You cannot make this into passive voice.
- Simple past tense: I played football.( Active)
- The football was played by me.(Passive)
- past continuous: I was playing football.(active)
- The foot ball was being played by me.(passive)
- Past perfect: I had played football.(active)
- The football had been played by me.(passive)
- Past perfect continuous: I had been playing football.(active)
- This cannot be changed to passive voice.
- Simple future: I will play football.(active)
- The football will be played by me.(passive)
- future continuous: I will be playing football.(active)
- This cannot be made into passive voice.
- Future perfect: I will have played football.(active)
- The football will have been played by me( passive )
- Future perfect continuous: I will have been playing football.(active)
- This cannot be changed into passive voice.
- Note carefully .There are twelve sentences in the active voice and only 8 sentences are there in Passive voice.
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- for a change: A boy was asked to change the voice for this sentence.
- The dog bites me.Active.
- I bite the dog.Active or passive.
- The right answer is I am bitten by the dog.
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- When he was asked to change the voice, The dog bites me..He changed his voice to a girl's voice and repeated the sentence.
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- To change the active sentence to passive voice ,the sentence must have a transitive verb.Transitive verb will have an object.
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- The horse runs fast. where is the object? so runs is an intransitive verb.
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- o21c.in please take this into consideration'
Saturday, 13 October 2018
ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE.
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