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Rules of voice change

Rules of Voice Change

I am a student- if it is a sentence then what is voice. Actually voice is nothing but oral form of a sentence. So, sentence is in written form and voice is in spoken form. There are two types of voice. These are: 1. Active 2. Passive

Why a voice is active and why a voice is passive? Active Voice: A voice is active when subject of verb is active. It means the doer of a verb is present in a sentence or voice. For example: We play football. Here verb is play. Who is doing this verb? It is we. So the agent is present or active here and thats why it is called active voice. Subject is active here.

Passive Voice:

Now see these sentences: 1. Football is played. 2. Football is played by us.

Lets see the first sentence. Verb of this voice is be. Now ask this verb be who/ what is his agent. You will find no one. So, subject is inactive or passive here. Thats why it is called passive voice. Now see the second sentence. Here subject is added with the help of by. So can say that subject of this voice is still indirect or passive. Thats why it is a passive voice.

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Rules of voice change

Active to Passive Voice

Lets see the following chart: Rule Use Rule 1 Sub Rule 3 Tense of active voice Rule 2 be Rule 4 V.p.p. Rule 5 by Rule 6 Obj

Rule 1

Use object of active voice as subject. Because we need here what is done.

Rule 2 Use the verb be in all cases

Rule 3 Now adjust the tense according to the tense of active voice as per the following table.

Indefinite continuous perfect Perfect continuous

Subject S S S S

Tense form No auxiliary verb am/is/are/was/were/shall be/will be have/ has/ had/ shall have/ will have Have been/ has been/ had been/ shall have been/ will have been

Verb from be be----ing be---en Be---ing

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Rules of voice change

Rule 4

Now make the verb of active voice as adjective by making past participle of that verb. We cannot use two main verbs together in a simple sentence as be is used as main verb.

Rule 5 Use the conjunction by to add the agent of verb.

Rule 6 Now use the agent of verb.

Change these voices from active to passive: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. We play football. We played football. We have played football. We have been playing football since morning We will play football. We were playing football.

Now fill the blanks to make them correct:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Football is .play/ playing/played. by us. Baseball was .being/ been /beplayed by us. English had been teach/taught/teaching.by English teacher. Our result will/ will be /will have.being improved gradually. Our nation had .be/being/been gained success.
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Rules of voice change

6. He is being ..teach/ teaching/ taught enough.

Md. Moniruzzaman Fakir Lecture in English Birshreshtha Munshi Abdur Rouf Public College Dhaka

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