Friday, September 27, 2013

Active & Passive Identification

We can identify three times pattern in the English language
  1. Present Tense

  2. Past Tense

  3. Future Tense

As well as we can categorize above time patterns two types
  1. Active Voice
  2. Passive Voice
now we learn step by step above three time under active voice and passive voice
  • Simple Present

Active   -          He go to the school ever day
Passive -          The school is gone every day

Active   -          People never  invite me to the party
Passive -          I am never invited to the party

Active   -          Somebody cleans our rooms every Sunday  
Passive -          Our rooms are cleaned very Sunday

☺Objective + Am/Is/Are + Verb(Past Participial Form) + Subject☺

  • Simple Past

 Active   -         Someone stole my new car last week
 Passive -          My new car was stolen last week

Active   -          The company gave me a promotion this year
Passive -           I was given a promotion this year by the company

Active   -          They didn't invite me to the tonight party
Passive -           I wasn't invited to the party

☺Objective + Was/Were + Verb(Past Participial Form) + Subject☺


  • Present Continuous   
Active   -         He is writing an letter to her mother
Passive -         The letter is being writing to her mother by him

Active   -         My friends are joking me telling about last night
Passive -          I am being joking about last night

Active   -         The army is finding enemies around the world
Passive -          Enemies are being finding around the world

☺Objective + Is/Are/Am + Being + Verb(Past Participial Form) + Subject☺
  • Past Continuous 
Active   -         He was writing a letter
Passive -         A letter was being written by him when i went there

Active   -         I was watching a film
Passive -         A films were being watched me

☺Objective + Was/Were + Being + Verb(Past Participial Form) + Subject☺

  • Present Perfect 

Active   -         She has taken a loan
Passive -         A loan has been taken by her

Active   -         The student have bought the study packs
Passive -          The study packs have been bought by them

  • Past Perfect

Active   -         She had taken a loan
Passive -         A loan had been taken

Active   -         The students had bought the study packs
Passive -          The study packs had been taken by them


  • Simple Future 

Active   -         Somebody will clean the office tomorrow
Passive -         The office will be cleaned tomorrow

Active   -         Somebody must clean  the office
Passive -         The office must be cleaned


  • Future Continuous 

Active   -         She will be singing a song at the concert
Passive -         A song will be sang at the concert

Active   -         I shall win the competition held on tomorrow
Passive -         The competition will be won held on tomorrow

End of the lesion

Normally ideas are not expressed in Passive Voice in the perfect countinouse time (present / Past / Future ) . Therefore it is better to avoid attempting a Passive Voice in any Perfect Continuous Tense







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