ACTIVE Voice

AND PASSIVE
Prepared by:
VOICE
Miss Genesis C. Aguilar

Compare:
1. Augustus Waters helps Hazel Grace.
2. Hazel Grace is helped by Augustus Waters.
A Verb is in Active Voice when its form shows that the person or thing denoted
by the Subject does something; or in other words, is the doer of the action.
A Verb in the Passive Voice when its forms show that something is done to the
person or thing denoted by the Subject.
Voice is the form of Verb which shows whether what is denoted by the
Subject, does something or has something done to it.

Note the change from the Active Voice to the Passive Voice
in the following sentences:
ACTIVE VOICE
PASSIVE VOICE
1. Lumnay loves Awiyao.
Awiyao is loved by Lumnay.
2. Awiyao is inviting Lumnay
Lumnay is being invited by
to the traditional wedding
Awiyao to the traditional wedding
dance.
dance.
3. Some friends fetched
Awiyao was fetched by some
Awiyao.
friends.
4. Lumnay will follow Awiyao
Awiyao will be followed by
to stop their tribes tradition.
Awiyao to stop their tribe
tradition.
When the Verb is changed from the Active Voice to the Passive Voice, the
Object of the Transitive Verb in the Active Voice becomes the Subject of the
Verb in the Passive Voice.
Since the Object of the verb in the active voice becomes the Subject of the
Passive form, it follows that only Transitive Verbs can be used in the Passive
Voice, because an Intransitive verb has no Object.

ACTIVITY
Turn the following sentences from the Active Voice to the Passive Voice:

1.The cat killed the mouse.

2.My father will write a letter.
3.Your behavior vexes me.
4.My cousin drew this picture.
5.Manners reveal character.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Answers:
The mouse was killed by the cat.
The letter will be written by my father.
I was vexed by your behavior.
This picture was drawn by my cousin.
Character is revealed by manners.

QUIZ

Change the following sentences so that the Verbs will be

in the Passive Voice.
1. The Mayor donated the prize.
2. Our players won the game.
3. Some persons make exaggerated statements.
4. The coach praised the players.
5. The noise outside disturbed the students.
Answers:
1. The prize was donated by the Mayor.
2. The game was won by our players.
3. Exaggerated statements were made by some persons.
4. The players were praised by the coach.
5. The students were disturbed by the noise outside.

HOMEWORK
Construct 5 sentences using Active Voice from the short story The Wedding
Dance. Then, change the sentences from the Active Voice to the Passive
Voice.
Ex. Active: Lumnay will return the necklace.
Passive: The necklace will be returned by Lumnay.
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