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The document discusses active and passive voice. It defines active and passive voice and provides examples of each. The key differences are that in active voice the subject performs the action, while in passive voice the subject receives the action. The document also discusses when to use each voice and how to change sentences from active to passive voice by changing the order of the subject and object.

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Eng Assign 1

The document discusses active and passive voice. It defines active and passive voice and provides examples of each. The key differences are that in active voice the subject performs the action, while in passive voice the subject receives the action. The document also discusses when to use each voice and how to change sentences from active to passive voice by changing the order of the subject and object.

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Topic:

Active & passive voice


Group members:
1. Muhammad
Muzammil(28)
2. Hassnain Ali Zaidi(11)
3. Muhammad Nabeel(31)
4. Nabeel Iftikhar(65)
5. Abdul Rehman(40)
6. Abdul Rehman(59)
Submitted to:
Mam Rahat Aslam
Voice: voice is the form a verb takes
to indicate whether the subject of verb
perform or receives the action.
An action of a subject, in relation to an
object is expressed in two ways. These
two ways of expressing action of a
subject are known as voices.
1. Active voice
2. Passive voice

Active voice:
A feature of sentence in which the
subject performs the action of the verb
and the object is the goal or the recipient.
Active voice indicate that the subject of
the verb is acting.Beacuse the subject
does or "act upon" the verb in such
sentences.The sentences are said to be in
the active voice.
For example: The dog jumped onto the
boy.
The dog(subject) is doing the
jumping(verb).

Passive voice: A feature of sentence


in which the object or goal of the action
functions as the sentence subject and the
main verb phrase includes the verb to be
and the past participle.
In a passive voice sentences, the subject
and object flip-flop.The subject become
the passive recipient of the
action.Because the subject is being
"acted upon" ,such sentences are said to
be in passive voice.
For example: A letter is written by me.
Difference between active and
passive voice:
To understand the difference between the
both voices, we should focus on the
subject and the object of a sentence. In
active voice subject acts upon the object.
In passive voice the object depends upon
the subject. The meaning remains the
same in both voices but the sequence of
the word changes. The sequence of
subject and object as in active voice is
reversed when it is expressed passive
voice.

For example: I eat an apple.(active)


An apple is eaten by me.(passive)
Reason to use the Active voice
Most writers prefer to use active voice
because it is more direct.
The waiter dropped the tray of food.
(Active)
The tray of food was dropped by the
waiter.(passive)
The active voice is less awkward and
clearly states relationship between
subject and action.
When to use passive Voice
In general, the passive voice is less
direct, less forceful,and less concise
then the active voice.
Use the passive voice in the
following situation.
 Use passive voice when you do not
know or do not want or reveal the
performer of an action.
 Use passive voice when you want to
emphasize the receiver of an action.
Awkward passive: My bicycle was
repainted by john.
Deliberate passive: My bicycle was
repainted.(The performer is not
mentioned and the emphasis is on the
bicycle)
Rules for changing active into
passive:

Active voice: Subject + Verb + Object


Passive voice: Object + Verb + Subject

Rule no 1. The places of subject and


object will interchange. The subject will
shift to the place of object and object will
shift to the place of subject.
Example: He buys a camera.
A camera is bought by him.
Rule no 2. Only third form of verb will
wbe used in passive voice for all tenses.
Rule no 3. The word “by” will be used
before subject in passive voice.
Example: She drinks water.
Water is drunk by her.
Sentences which cannot be
changed into passive voice:
There are some sentences which cannot
be converted into passive voice. The
sentences of following tenses cannot be
converted into passive voice.
1. Present perfect continuous tense
2. Past perfect continuous tense
3. Future perfect continuous tense
4. Future continuous tense
Sentences having intransitive
verb, cannot be converted into
passive voice:
There are two types of verb transitive
and intransitive verb. A verb that
requires an object in sentence to give
complete meaning, is called transitive
verb.
Example. He bought ______.
He bought a book.
Buy is a transitive verb, because
without an object it does not give
complete idea.
On the other hand, a verb which does
not require any object to give complete
meaning, is called intransitive verb.
Example. He laughs.
Laughs is an intransitive verb requires
no object for complete meaning.
So we cannot make passive voice of
these sentences.
How to change imperative
sentences into passive voice:
A sentence that expresses a command
or an advice or a request is called an
imperative sentence.
Examples. Learn your lessons.
Open the door. Etc.
There are three rules for converting
imperative sentences into passive voice:
1. The imperative sentence in passive
voice being with “let”.
2. The word “Be” is used as an
auxiliary verb in passive voice of
imperative sentence.
3. First form of verb is converted into
third form for making passive voice
of imperative sentence.
Examples:

Close the door. (active)


Let the door be closed. (passive)

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