You must have seen that the verb form changes when you switch from active to passive voice. But this conversion from one voice to another voice is really simple when you know a few rules that we will chalk out for you here: Browse more Topics under Transformation Sentences You may use some different words in situations where you must. Note again how the meaning has stayed the same throughout. Now you must have gotten some idea of how the active and passive voice sentences look like.
To understand the difference, just focus on how the subject and object change the structure of the sentences in the table below: Active Voice Usually, the structure or sequence of the subject, verb, and object expressed in the active voice sentence gets reversed in the passive voice of the same sentence. In both the above sentences, the meaning remains the same and only the structure is what that changes. Passive voice: When the object is acted upon by the subject, the sentence is written in Passive voice. – My mom is the subject, plays is the verb, and violin is the object.Īctive voice: When a subject is directly acting on the object, the sentence is written in Active voice. – I is the subject, swim is the verb, and ocean is the object. Let’s understand this with the help of an example: A subject is an agent who performs the verb on the object.
My grandfather is known to like red wine. In this pattern we start with the subject of the reported clause, which is followed by the passive reporting verb and the to-infinitive form of the verb in the reported clause: subject + passive reporting verb + to-infinitive.It is known that my grandfather likes red wine. In this pattern, the generalised agent + active reporting verb is replaced with it + passive reporting verb:Įverybody knows that my grandfather likes red wine. it + passive reporting verb + that-clause.
with reporting verbs, we can use the following passive patterns:
If we want to avoid mentioning the generalised agents we, they, people, everybody, one etc.
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