Q. What is Active Voice?
Ans. Active Voice is a sentence structure in which the subject performs the action. Example: Ram writes a letter.
Q. What is Passive Voice?
Ans. Passive Voice is a sentence structure in which the subject receives the action. Example: A letter is written by Ram.
Q. What are the main elements of an active sentence?
Ans. The main elements are subject, verb and object, when the verb is transitive.
Q. How is a simple present active sentence changed into passive voice?
Ans. The object becomes the subject, and the verb changes to am/is/are + past participle (V3). Example: He writes a letter → A letter is written by him.
Q. Change into passive voice: She sings a song.
Ans. A song is sung by her.
Q. Change into passive voice: They play football.
Ans. Football is played by them.
Q. Change into passive voice: Ram wrote a letter.
Ans. A letter was written by Ram.
Q. Change into passive voice: She is cooking food.
Ans. Food is being cooked by her.
Q. Change into passive voice: They have completed the work.
Ans. The work has been completed by them.
Q. Change into passive voice: He will finish the task.
Ans. The task will be finished by him.
Q. Change into passive voice: The police caught the thief.
Ans. The thief was caught by the police.
Q. Change into active voice: The letter was written by Sita.
Ans. Sita wrote the letter.
Q. Change into active voice: The work is done by Ravi.
Ans. Ravi does the work.
Q. Change into passive voice: Open the door.
Ans. Let the door be opened.
Q. Change into passive voice: Do not waste time.
Ans. Let time not be wasted.
Q. Can every sentence be changed into passive voice?
Ans. No. In general, only sentences with a transitive verb and an object can be changed into passive voice.
Q. What happens to the object in passive voice?
Ans. The object of the active sentence usually becomes the subject of the passive sentence.
Q. What is the role of the past participle (V3) in passive voice?
Ans. The main verb is used in its past participle form in passive voice, with an appropriate form of the verb be.
Q. Change into passive voice: Someone has stolen my bag.
Ans. My bag has been stolen.
Q. Change into passive voice: People speak English all over the world.
Ans. English is spoken all over the world.