Powerpoint on Active and passive Voice, which has illustrations, pictures, tabular content and exercises, with plenty and helpful examples

1. THERE ARE TWO SPECIAL
FORMS OF VERBS :

2. • The subject of the sentence performs the action expressed in the verb.
• Here “the teacher” is the subject of the sentence and she is doing the
action of giving the homework.
• Hence this sentence is in active voice.
ACTIVE VOICE
For example:
The teacher gave homework to Ram.

4. • The subject does not perform the action expressed in the verb.
• It receives the action named in the verb.
• Here “Ram” is the subject but he is not giving the homework.
• “Ram” here is receiving the homework.
• Hence this sentence is in Passive voice.
PASSIVE VOICE
For example:
Ram was given homework by the teacher.
So much
homewor
k to do…

7. COMMON RULES FOR CHANGING A SENTENCE FROM
ACTIVE TO PASSIVE VOICE:
1) The subject of the Active voice
sentence becomes the object of the
passive voice sentence and vice
versa.

8. 2) According to the tense of the
active voice use auxiliary verb of
passive voice.

9. 3) Always put the main verb into past
participle form.

11. SENTENCES TO PRACTICE

12. The Pronouns (when these act as subject)
are changed as given below:
Subject Object
I becomes me
We becomes us
You becomes you
She becomes her
He becomes him
They becomes them
It becomes it
Who becomes whom

13. Note: Sentences given in the following tenses cannot be
changed into passive voice:
1. Present Perfect Continuous.
2. Past Perfect Continuous.
3. Future Continuous.
4. Future Perfect Continuous.

14. The following table gives the form of the verb ‘see’ in Passive
Voice in the various Tenses:
Tense Chart (Passive Voice’)
Tense Indefinite Continuous Perfect
Present
is/am/are + verb in third form
is seen
am seen
are seen
is/am/are + being + verb in third
form
is being seen
am being seen
are being seen
has/have + been + verb in third form
has been seen
have been seen
Past
was/were + verb in third form
was seen
were seen
was/were + being + verb in third
form
was being seen
were being seen
had + been + verb in third form
had been seen
Future
will/shall + be + verb in third form
will be seen
shall be seen
— No change
will/shall + have been + verb in third form
will have been seen
shall have been seen

15. EXERCISE:
1. We teach Maths.
2. Do you keep a cat?
3. She doesn’t ring the bell.
4. I am cooking the beans.
5. You are not watching TV.
6. Are they selling books?
7. We have solved the sums.
8. He has not fed the cow.
9. Have we learnt the lessons?
10. Bell invented the phone.