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