Active and Passive Voice: Tense-wise Rules
Past continuous tense
Past Continuous Tense
Normal structure of sentence in active voice for past continuous tense is
Subject + was/were + verb + ing + object. (Active Voice)
Ex: She was cooking the food. (Active Voice)
(Here ‘she’ is subject, ‘cooking’ is verb and ‘the food’ is object.)
While changing the sentence into passive, this structure becomes
Subject + was + being + V-3 + by + agent. (Passive Voice)
Ex: The food was being cooked by her. (Passive Voice)
(Here ‘The food’ becomes subject in passive voice, ‘cooked’ is V-3 (past participle) of cook, and ‘her’ is agent (doer))
See some more examples to clarify this
- Shubham was writing homework. (Active voice)
Homework was being written by Shubham. (Passive voice)
- Simran was learning English. (Active voice)
English was being learnt by Simran. (Passive voice)
- Sachin was playing cricket. (Active Voice)
Cricket was being played by Sachin. (Passive Voice)
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