When an Active voice in simple Present Tense is converted into Passive Voice the verb is changed into past participle form complemented with the Auxiliary Verbs – is, are, am. The verb forms to be chosen for different Tenses are explained below with Examples- 1) Simple Present Tense Rules To Convert Active To Passive Voice and Vice Versa:įor changing a sentence from Active voice to Passive voice common Structural Changes are applied as explained above. In the further explanations we will go through the rules of writing Active/Passive Voices and also converting Active Voice to Passive Voice and vice versa. On the contrary a Passive Voice statement begins with the Object, followed by the verb and then the Subject at last. Therefore an Active Voice statement always begins with the Subject, followed by the verb and the Object respectively. The rule for placement of subject, Verb and Object in both Active and Passive voice are given below. Some more Example Sentences of Active and Passive Voices: ACTIVE VOICEīy knowing the order in which the Subject, Verb and Object are placed in a sentence, we can tell whether the sentence is Active or Passive. Therefore, the structural formula for Passive Voice can be given as- Object + Verb + Subject. Moving on to the Passive statement: “A letter is written by me” - we realize that the Object appears first followed by the Verb and Subject respectively. Therefore, the Structural Formula for Active Voice Statement can be written as- Subject + Verb + Object Passive Voice- A letter is written by me.įirst analyze the ‘Active Voice’ statement: “I write a letter” - ‘I’ is the subject, the verb is ‘write’ and the object is ‘letter’. Structural Formulaįor the purpose of deriving a Structural formula for Active and Passive voice, we will study one example sentence in both the voices, written below. It’s better to know the rules and Formulae for both Active and Passive Voices, by going through Examples and Exercises. The meaning of both of the above sentences remains same and they have only structural differences. Like in the above Passive Sentence the subject ‘me’ is being acted upon by the object. In the Passive Voice the subject becomes “Passive” and the Object gets the prominence. Passive Voice conveys the same message as in Active Voice, but it does it in an indirect way. Now go through the Passive Voice of the above Active Voice statement. Active Voice is expressed in the simple form of – Subject + Action (Verb) + Object. It a simply starts with the Subject (in this case ‘I’who performs the action) followed by the Verb (action)-‘draw’ and then the Object (on whom the action is performed)-sketch. Active Voice is the most direct and effective way to convey the information.
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