Identify the voice of the verb in

each sentence.
____________1. Allyza presented an
interesting report.
_____________2. Baseball was played by
Joshua.
_____________3. John removed the old paint.
_____________ 4. The national budget was
approved by congress.
_____________5. She cooked the breakfast.
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What is the subject in the second sentence?
What is a subject?
What is a verb in the second sentence?
What is a verb?
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Voice- is a characteristics of a verbs which
indicates the relation of the verb’s action
to its subject.

The voice of a verb may be either “active” or

“passive”.
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What is an Active Voice?

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Active Voice
-The active voice is the “normal” voice.
- This is the voice that we use most of the
time.

- Active voice is used when the subject

performs the action; the object receives
the action of the verb.
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Example
The head of the department
provided copies.
-”provided” is an active verb
because it allows the subject to
undertake an action.
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Steps on how to convert

ACTIVE VOICE TO
PASSIVE VOICE
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Present Simple Tense (passive Voice)
Auxiliary verb in passive voice: am/is/are +past
participle
Active voice: Passive voice:
1.He sings a song. A song is sung by him.
2. The movie fascinates
me.
3. They speak English
here.
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Present Perfect Tense (passive Voice)

Auxiliary verb in passive voice: has been/
have been +pp
Active voice: Passive voice:
1.She has finished his Her work has
work been finished by her.
2. I have written a novel.
3. She has finished the
job.
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Past Simple Tense (passive Voice)

Auxiliary verb in passive voice: was/were +pp
Active voice: Passive voice:
1. I killed a snake A snake was killed by
2. Ram broke a glass. me.
3. You missed the
chance.
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Past Perfect Tense (Passive Voice)

Auxiliary verb in passive voice: had been + pp
Active voice: Passive voice:
1. They had completed The assignment had
the assignment. been completed by
2. I had finished the them.
project.
3. She had learned her
lessons.
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Future Simple Tense (Passive Voice)

Auxiliary verb in passive voice: will be + pp
Active voice: Passive voice:
1. She will buy a car. A car will be bought by
2. I will finish the job. her.
She will solve the
problem.
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Passive Voice.
1. He lights the candle.
2. She teaches English.
3. Mina has stolen my book.
I finished the Job.
5. J.D. Salinger wrote “The Cather in the Rye”.
6. They sold three cars yesterday.
7. Thomas had read the book.
8. He had delivered the letters.
9. My uncle will pay my tuition fee.
10.They will write a test paper tomorrow.