Tuesday, 17 February 2015

Active Voice-Passive Voice

Active Voice and Passive Voice
  1. Transitive verbs:

It is a verb that denotes an action which passes over from the subject or doer we called an object.
                                                                      
Examples:

 She            ate     a       Mango
 Subject           Verb                 Object


Raju    gave        me    a  book.
Noun       Verb           Indirect     Direct
                                     Object      Object

           Transitive Verbs:   

It denotes a state or an action that is complete in itself. It doesn’t pass over to an object.
                                                    Or
Verbs which don’t have object.

Example:
Birds       fly.
Noun             Verb

1.       Active Voice :

A verb within the active voice in the person the person or thing denoted by the subject does the action.

Example:

She                  eats        a                   banana.
S (Doer of the         V                                           O (Receiver of
Action)                    Action                                   the action)

2.       Passive voice:
A verb is in the passive voice when it shows that something is done a person or thing denoted by the subject.

Example:
A mango is eaten by her.

Let me show you

how to change Active Voice to Passive Voice

When a sentence is changed from the A.V to P.V,the following changes take place.

1.Subject becomes object
      S---> O

2.Object becomes subject
        O--->S
3. Verb changes as be+Past Participle (V3) 
       V---> be+V3
4.Nouns become Pronouns.

Active Voice
Passive Voice
He
Him
You
You
She
Her
It
Its
Your
Yours
They
Their
We
Our
I
Me



    

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