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Active and Passive Voiceand Passive Voice

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Change the voice of the given sentences.
1. My sister writes exciting stories. _________________________________

2. We played football in the park. _________________________________
3. The lion will attack the prey. _________________________________
4. My class teacher is teaching us Hindi. _________________________________
5. The children were flying kites on the rooftop. _________________________________
6. My best friend has won the first prize. _________________________________
7. John had helped me before anybody else. _________________________________
8. They will have lost the opportunity. _________________________________

Let’s Learn Active and Passive Voice

All transitive verbs have an active and a passive voice because these verbs require objects.
Sentences that have transitive verbs are formed into passives.

Some common transitive verbs followed by a direct object are:

bring take annoy buy
send tell lay show
owe verify lend get
contain check offer wash
pass make edit finalise

The active voice is used when the subject does an action upon the object. For example:
Somebody wore my shoes. Rina cut the cake.
O O
In the above sentences, the subjects somebody and Rina are doing actions upon the
objects shoes and cake respectively.
The passive voice is used when we want to emphasise the action (the verb) and the object
of a sentence rather than the subject. Either the subject is less important than the action or
the subject is unknown.
For example:
My shoes were worn by somebody. The cake was cut by Rina.
O O
In the above sentences, the objects shoes and cake are emphasised more than the subjects
somebody and Rina.

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