Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Voice - Active / Passive



   
 ACTIVE / PASSIVE VOICE :--

    The most famous sentence, most of us are familiar with, is:
  1.  Ram killed Ravana. - Active Voice
  2.  Ravana was killed by Ram. - Passive Voice

    Here the first sentence is said to be in Active Voice and the second sentence in Passive Voice.

  *  A sentence is said to be in Active Voice when the subject does something.
  * Similarly, a sentence is said to be in Passive Voice when something is done to the subject.
 1.   In the first sentence Ram is the ‘subject’ and Ravana is the ‘object’. In the active voice sentence Ram i.e., the subject has killed the object Ravana.
 2.   In the second sentence Ravana is the subject but he allowed himself to be killed by subject Ram. Here the subject is Passive. Therefore, it is called Passive voice.
    e.g. :-
    Raju kicked the ball.
    In this sentence :-
       Raju is the ‘subject’ and ball is the ' object'.
       The word kicked is the verb.

    Here it must be noted that:
        ‘I’ becomes ‘me’ in Passive voice
        ‘We’ becomes ‘us’
        ‘You’ remains ‘you’
        ‘He’ becomes ‘him’
        ‘She’ becomes ‘her’
        ‘It’ remains ‘it’
        ‘They’ becomes ‘them.’

      VOICE :--  Voice is that form of verb which shows whether what is denoted by the Subject " does something " or " has something done to it ".
  
     There are two special forms for verbs called voice :
         1. Active voice
 
         2. Passive voice
  
      1. ACTIVE   VOICE :--

         * The active voice is the "normal" voice.
         * This is the voice that we use most of the time.
         *  In the active voice, the object receives the action of the verb:

        * ACTIVE ==    subject    +    verb     +  object
      
  
          active ==   Cat        +        eats     +   fish.
          active ==   Sohan    +       pushes    +    Ritesh.
   
   In active sentences,
         *  the thing doing the action is the subject of the sentence and
        *   the thing receiving the action is the object.

    Most sentences are active.
         [Thing doing action] + [verb] + [thing receiving action]
    Examples:
               * Ram  + drinks +  the milk.
               * Sonu + pushes + Monu.

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