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16. Active and Passive Voice
In grammar, voice refers to the form of a verb that shows whether the subject of a sentence
performs the action (the active voice) or is affected by it (the passive voice). There are two
voices in English :
(a) Active Voice (b) Passive Voice
1. Active Voice : A verb is said to be in active voice when its
subject acts, i.e., the doer of the action expressed by the verb.
Example : He plays cricket.
2. Passive Voice : A verb is said to be in the passive voice when
its subject is acted upon, i.e., the receiver of the action
denoted by the verb.
Example : Cricket is played by him.
How to make passive an active voice sentence :
Normally, those verbs can be made passive which have an object. Such verbs are called
transitive verbs, i.e., verbs with subject. Thus, a typical active voice sentence should
have the following parts in order for it to be passive.
Voice Graph
Active voice : Subject verb object
(Doer) (He) played hockey.
Passive voice : object passive verb by + subject
(as a subject) (III form) (as an object)
Hockey was played by him.
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