How To Formulate Passive Sentences

2. PART-II
How To Formulate Passive
Sentences

3. RECAP
• What is voice in grammar?
• What is an Agent in English Grammar?
• Subject And Agent
• What is patient in grammar?
• What is active voice in grammar?
• What is passive voice in grammar?
• When To Use Passive Voice?
• Sentences which cannot be changed into passive voice.
• Structure of passive sentences
• Check, Whether a sentence is active or passive.
• Rules for changing Voice.

4. Main Structure Of a Passive Sentence.

5. Check, Whether a sentence is active or passive
• Check, Whether a sentence is active or passive-I
• Step 1: Find the main verb and identify whether it is past
participle or not.
• Step 2: look just before the main verb and locate any form of be
present there?
• Check, Whether a sentence is active or passive-II
• Step 1: Find the subject.
Step 2: Did the subject perform the verb?

6. Check, Whether following sentence are active or passive
• In the last few years, several new houses were built.
• Were(be) +built (V3) ----- Passive Voice
• The author has written a special edition for children.
• has +written (V3) ----- Active Voice .
• He expected to be offered the job.
• be +offered (V3) ----- Passive Voice
• The scientist will have invented something new next year.
• have +invented (V3) ----- Active Voice.
• She was shown the easier way to do it.
• Be(was) +shown (V3) ----- Passive Voice

7. Rules for changing Active Voice
into Passive Voice:
• Identify the subject, the verb and the object: SVO.
• Change the object into subject.
• Put the suitable helping verb or auxiliary verb.
• Change the verb into past participle of the verb.
• Add the preposition "by"
• Change the subject into object.

8. Indefinite or Simple Tense
Present S is/am/are (not) V(3) by agent
Past S was/were (not) V(3) by agent
Future S shall/will (not) be V(3) by agent
Present Is/Am/Are s V(3) by agent?
Past Was/Were s V(3) by agent?
Future Shall/Will s be V(3) by agent?

9. Indefinite or Simple Tense
• The boy hits the ball.
• STEP-1:Remove subject: The boy
• STEP-2: Identify the object and bring it into the front of the
sentence. The Ball
• STEP-3: Place suitable form of the verb to be with the subject of
passive sentence. The Ball is
• STEP-4: Convert the main verb into 3rd
form of the verb and keep
it at its actual position or place it after verb to be:
The ball is hit
• STEP-5: Place the preposition by along with agent at the end of
the sentence . The ball is hit by the boy.

10. Convert the following sentences into passive voice
• Muslims celebrate Eid twice a year.
• Harry ate fish yesterday.
• The team will celebrate their victory tomorrow.
• Eid is celebrated by Muslims twice a year.
• Fish was eaten by Harry yesterday.
• Their victory will be celebrated by team
tomorrow.

11. Convert the following sentences into passive voice
• Do they take tea daily?
• He did not receive invitation.
• Will you not cheat him?
• Does she not cook Chinese rice?
• Did police not chase him?
• He will not show his efficiency in exams.

12. Convert the following sentences into passive voice
• Do they take tea daily?
• Is tea taken (by them) daily?
• He did not receive invitation.
• Invitation was not received (by him).
• Will you not cheat him?
• Will he not be cheated (by you)?
• Does she not cook Chinese rice?
• Are Chinese rice not cooked (by her)?
• Did police not chase him?
• Was he not chased (by police)?
• He will not show his efficiency in exams.
• His efficiency will not be shown (by him) in exams.

13. Continuous Tense
Present S Is/Am/Are (not) being V(3) by agent
Past S Was/Were(not) being V(3) by agent
Present Is/Am/Are s being V(3) by agent?
Past Was/Were s being V(3) by agent?

14. Continuous Tense
• The boy is playing game.
• STEP-1:Remove subject: The boy
• STEP-2: Identify the object and bring it into the front of the sentence.
Game
• STEP-3: Place suitable form of the verb to be with the subject of passive
sentence. Game is
• STEP-4: Place being after verb to be:
Game is being
• STEP-5: Convert the main verb into 3rd
form of the verb and keep it at
its actual position or place it after being:
Game is being played
• STEP-6: Place the preposition by along with agent at the end of the
sentence . Game is being played by the boy.

15. Convert the following sentences into passive voice
• The boy is reading the book.
• He was making pancakes in the kitchen.
• They’re not growing the flowers in this
garden.
• Is the state keeping this man in prison?
• Was global climate change threatening
penguins living in the Antarctic?

16. Convert the following sentences into passive voice
• The boy is reading the book.
• The book is being read (by the boy).
• He was making pancakes in the kitchen.
• Pancakes were being made in the kitchen (by him).
• They’re not growing the flowers in this garden.
• Flowers are not being grown by them in this garden (by them).
• Is the state keeping this man in prison?
• Is this man being kept in prison (by the state)?
• Was global climate change threatening penguins living in the Antarctic?
• Were penguins living in the Antarctic being threatened (by global climate
change)?

17. Perfect Tense
Present S has/have(not) been V(3) by agent
Past S had(not) been V(3) by agent
Future S will (not) have been V(3) by agent
Present Has/Have s been V(3) by agent?
Past Had s been V(3) by agent?
future Will s been V(3) by agent?

18. Perfect Tense
• The boy has solved the puzzle.
• STEP-1:Remove subject: The boy
• STEP-2: Identify the object and bring it into the front of the sentence.
The puzzle
• STEP-3: Place suitable form of the verb to have with the subject of
passive sentence. The puzzle has
• STEP-4: Place been after verb to have:
The puzzle has been
• STEP-5: Place the main verb as it after been:
The puzzle has been solved
• STEP-6: Place the preposition by along with agent at the end of the
sentence . The puzzle has been by the boy.

19. Convert the following sentences into passive voice
• We have knocked at the door twice.
• They had looked into the matter.
• She will have completed MBBS next year.
• Has Sam left his job?
• Had he not informed employee?
• Will they have made him king?

20. Convert the following sentences into passive voice
• We have knocked at the door twice.
• The door has been knocked at (by us) twice.
• They had looked into the matter.
• The matter has been looked into (by them).
• She will have completed MBBS next year.
• MBBS will have been completed (by her) next year.
• Has Sam left his job?
• Has job been left (by Sam)?
• Had he not informed employee?
• Had employee not been informed (by him)?
• Will they have made him king?
• Will he have been made king (by them)?