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    The document discusses the difference between active and passive voice in English grammar. The active voice has the subject performing the action as the evident subject of the sentence. In passive voice, the subject receiving the action is the evident subject. The passive voice is formed by using a form of the auxiliary verb "be" followed by the past participle of the main verb. Basic rules for converting between active and passive include making the object of the active sentence the subject of the passive sentence and changing the finite verb form to the past participle.

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    The document discusses the difference between active and passive voice in English grammar. The active voice has the subject performing the action as the evident subject of the sentence. In passive voice, the subject receiving the action is the evident subject. The passive voice is formed by using a form of the auxiliary verb "be" followed by the past participle of the main verb. Basic rules for converting between active and passive include making the object of the active sentence the subject of the passive sentence and changing the finite verb form to the past participle.

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    The document discusses the difference between active and passive voice in English grammar. The active voice has the subject performing the action as the evident subject of the sentence. In passive voice, the subject receiving the action is the evident subject. The passive voice is formed by using a form of the auxiliary verb "be" followed by the past participle of the main verb. Basic rules for converting between active and passive include making the object of the active sentence the subject of the passive sentence and changing the finite verb form to the past participle.

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    Active and passive voice

    Talking about active and passive voice in English seems complex, but it is not. When
    we talk about active and passive voice in English, we are referring to the grammatical
    structure of a sentence (the order of its words).

    The active voice active voice sentence is the one in which the subject performing the
    action is evident.

    The passive voice passive voice sentence: here it is the subject receiving the action that
    is in evidence.

    USING THE AUXILIARY VERB “BE”

    The passive voice is formed by using a form of the auxiliary verb “be” (be, am, is, are,
    was, were, being, been) followed by the past participle of the main verb.

    Active Passive Passive

    He loves me. I am loved

    We took our children to the circus. The children were taken to the circus.

    A thief stole my money. My money was stolen.

    BASIC RULES FOR ACTIVE/PASSIVE CONVERSIONS:

    I. The object of the active verb becomes the subject of the passive verb.
    II. The active sentence’s subject becomes the object of the passive sentence (or is
    dropped). The finite form of the verb is changed past participle or V3 form.
    III. The preposition “by” is used before the passive object.
    Now let’s understand the structures/ rules of the voices in different tenses and
    sentence types:

    NOTE: Generally, there is no voice change with Present Perfect Continuous, Past


    Perfect Continuous, Future Continuous, or Future Perfect Continuous.

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