Question

Changing active to passive voice

Answer 1

★ What is Active voice?

• A verb is said to be in the active voice when the subject of the verb is the doer of the action or acts or is active.

Examples:

1. He helps the poor.
2. A poet writes poem

★ What is Passive voice?

• A verb is said to be in the Passive voice when the subject of the verb doesn't act but receives the action by someone or something.

Examples:

1. The poor is helped by him.
2. Poems are written by a poet.

Changing Sentence from Active to Passive voice:-

Active :- Sheela writes letter

Passive:- A letter is written by Sheela.

Note how the form has changed:-

• The Object of the Verb in Active Voice (a letter) becomes the Subject of the Verb in the passive voice

• The Subject in the Active Voice (Sheela) becomes the Object of the Verb in the Passive voice.And the Preposition by has been used before it.

• An appropriate form of the Verb to be (is) has been used followed by the Third form(Past Participle) of the Verb (write)

Answer 2

In the passive voice, the subject of the sentence receives the action. For example, you have the sentence "I ate the pie". I ate the pie is the active voice. Since you want the subject, I, to receive the action, the sentence in passive voice is "the pie was eaten by me."