Active and Passive Voice Rules in Urdu with Examples learn basic rules and methods of formation of active voice and passive sentences using examples in Urdu.
Learn meanings and types of voice in English with Urdu explanation.
- Active Voice
- Passive voice
learn basic differences between active and passive voice sentences. In active voice sentences the subject is a work doer and in passive voice sentences the object is the subject of sentence.
Here the question rises that how we can identify the passive voice sentences in English. we use the following verbs in place of verb “Be”.
Be,is, am ,are, was, were, been, being.
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Active voice sentences conversion into passive voice sentences. look at the example below:
He eats apples.(active voice)
Apples are eaten by him.(Passive voice)
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Changes in helping verbs
| Active Voice | Passive Voice |
| is , am, are | is being , am being, are being |
| Has, have | has been, have been |
| was, were | was being, were being |
| will, shall | will be, shall be |
| will have | will have been |
| shall have | shall have been |
| can | can be |
| could | could be |
| may | may be |
| might | might be |
| should | should be |
Important Changes in Pronouns.
| Active Voice | Passive Voice |
| I | me |
| we | us |
| he | him |
| she | her |
| they | them |
| you | you |
Formation of Passive voice sentences
there are four steps for making passive voice sentences using active voice.
Step 1
Place the Object of active voice sentence in place of passive voice subject and Place the subject of active voice sentence in place of passive voice Object.
Step 2
Changes in Helping verbs.
Step 3
Changes in Subjects.
Step 4
Use of Forms of verb
