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    Active Voice Vs Passive Voice 1

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    The document discusses the eight passive voice tenses in English and how to convert sentences from active to passive voice. It provides examples for each tense: simple present, present continuous, present perfect, simple past, past continuous, past perfect, simple future, and future perfect. The steps for conversion are identified as: 1) identify the subject, object, and verb, 2) add the preposition "by" before the subject, 3) swap the subject and object, 4) convert the verb to the past participle form, and 5) add the helping verb before the main verb and the object. Four tenses - present perfect continuous, future continuous, past perfect continuous, and future perfect continuous - are noted as not

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    The document discusses the eight passive voice tenses in English and how to convert sentences from active to passive voice. It provides examples for each tense: simple present, present continuous, present perfect, simple past, past continuous, past perfect, simple future, and future perfect. The steps for conversion are identified as: 1) identify the subject, object, and verb, 2) add the preposition "by" before the subject, 3) swap the subject and object, 4) convert the verb to the past participle form, and 5) add the helping verb before the main verb and the object. Four tenses - present perfect continuous, future continuous, past perfect continuous, and future perfect continuous - are noted as not

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    The document discusses the eight passive voice tenses in English and how to convert sentences from active to passive voice. It provides examples for each tense: simple present, present continuous, present perfect, simple past, past continuous, past perfect, simple future, and future perfect. The steps for conversion are identified as: 1) identify the subject, object, and verb, 2) add the preposition "by" before the subject, 3) swap the subject and object, 4) convert the verb to the past participle form, and 5) add the helping verb before the main verb and the object. Four tenses - present perfect continuous, future continuous, past perfect continuous, and future perfect continuous - are noted as not

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    Eight passive voice tenses

    Active voice
    Subject + Action + Object S+V+O

    Passive voice
    Object + Action + Subject O + (HV) + V3 + “by” + S

    Example.
    Active voice: Abdi repaired my car.
    Passive voice: My car was repaired by Abdi

    Convert active voice to passive voice

    Five steps:-
    1. Identify: (Subject, Object, Verb)
    2. Add: preposition (by before S)
    3. Swap: (Subject convert Object)
    4. Convert: (Verb convert V3)
    5. Add: (HV before MV. O+(HV) + (V3) + “by” + S

    While changing subject which is a pronoun to object

    Subject Object
    I Me
    We Us
    You You
    They Them
    He Him
    She Her
    It It

    Add a proper helping verb of “to be” before the main verb

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    Eight passive voice tenses
    No Tenses Active voice Passive voice

    1. Simple present tense Write / writes Is/am/are written


    2. Present continues Is/am/are writing Is/am/are being written
    3. Present perfect Have / has written Have been written
    4. Simple past tense Wrote Was/were written
    5. Past continues tense Was / were writing Was / were / being written
    6. Past perfect tense Had written Had been written
    7. Simple future Will write Will be written
    8. Future perfect tense Will have written Will have been written

    We don’t use four tenses while converting from active to passive

    1. Present perfect continuous


    2. Future continuous tense
    3. Past perfect continuous tense
    4. Future perfect continuous tense

    1. Simple Present Tense


    Active voice: He writes a letter.
    Passive voice: A letter is written by him.

    2. Present continuous tense


    Active voice: Java is making a cake.
    Passive voice: A cake is being made by Java.

    3. Present perfect tense


    Active voice: I have eaten a burger.
    Passive voice: A burger has been eaten by me.

    4. Simple past tense

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    Eight passive voice tenses
    Active voice: He bought a car.
    Passive voice: A car was bought by him.

    5. Past continuous tense


    Active voice: Sara was singing a song.
    Passive voice: A song was being sung by Sara

    6. Past perfect tense


    Active voice: Ali had finished homework.
    Passive voice: Homework had been finished by Ali.

    7. Simple future tense


    Active voice: She will accept the offer.
    Passive voice: The offer will be accepted by her.

    8. Future perfect tense


    Active voice: I will have charged the battery.
    Passive voice: The battery will have been charged by me.

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