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Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Active and Passive Voice Rules – Past Indefinite Tense


Active and Passive Voice: Tense-wise Rules





Simple Past Tense




Normal structure of sentence in active voice for simple past tense is


Subject + V-2 + object. (Active Voice)


Ex: She cooked the food. (Active Voice)

(Here ‘she’ is subject, ‘cooked’ is V-2 of cook and ‘the food’ is object.)


While changing the sentence into passive, this structure becomes


Subject + was + V-3 + by + agent. (Passive Voice)


Ex: The food was 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 wrote homework. (Active Voice)
    Home was written by Shubham. (Passive Voice)



  • Simran learned English. (Active Voice)
    English was learnt by Simran. (Passive Voice)



  • Sachin played cricket. (Active Voice)
    Cricket was played by Sachin. (Passive Voice)

























Active and passive voice with Modal Verbs


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