The Passive Voice World (1)
[ This page is dedicated to the student who asked for clarification about the passive voice ]
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Conclusion
When the gravitation law was discovered by Isaac Newton, a new gate in the field of scientific discoveries opened....
When my father was informed (by my mother) that the television set had been turned off by the cat, he got astonished and didn't just believe it.
In ( Do it! ) the agent is defined and "S/he , they " are the addressee(s). If The speaker (The one who wants it to be done) doesn't want to appoint a specific person in a group for the job, he may just say (It is to be done <> It must be done <> It has to be done no matter who will do it!). In this case what interests the speaker most is the fact that S/He wants the thing done; that's all!. He doesn't care much about the "He" or "she" who would do it. |
Now I'd like you to put these sentences in the passive voice::
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Now this is how they look like after the transformation into the passive voice::
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Put the following sentence in the passive voice:
look at the following sentence:
Continuous Tenses | Active Voice | Passive Voice |
1.Past continuous | She was cooking a meal. | A meal was being cooked. |
2.Present continuous | They are pushing the car. | The car is being pushed. |
Other Tenses | Active Voice | Passive Voice |
| They will be selling the house. | The house will be being sold. |
| She would be making cakes. | Cakes would be being made. |
| They have been selling some cows. | Some cows have been being sold. |
| He had been singing a song. | A song had been being sung. |