Lesson for Voice Change / Active Voice & Passive Voice Process Subject English Grade 9th

 

Lesson for Voice Change / Active Voice & Passive Voice Process

Subject English

Grade 9^th

Students` Leaning Outcomes

• By the end of this lesson, Students will be able to know about the voice / describing a process.

Information for Teachers

• [Special stress has been given on the Passive mode to describe something in real-life situation, not wishing to specify the agent (e.g. the house was built in 2015 including Quasi-Passive Voice (e.g. the room looks nice.)]
• Just Transitive Verbs can be changed as passive voice because in such types of verbs can take an object. These verbs indicate whether the subject is acting or being acted upon. When the subject is doing the action, the sentence is said to be in the Active Voice. Whenever the subject is acted upon, then the sentence is count to be in the Passive Voice.

What is the meaning of ‘Voice’?

• The tern ‘Voice’ is the form of the verb which shows whether the Subject is doer of the action or something has been done by it.
• There are three kinds of Voices:

1. Active Voice
2. Passive voice
3. Quasi-Voice

• Active Voice: When the subject of a sentence is the doer or actor, the verb Active Voice. It is so because the subject is active. A verb is said to be in the Active Voice when the subject acts or performs the action; as,

1. Harris killed a snake.
2. Rafi sings a song.
3. Shan is writing a letter.
4. I do this work.
5. He does this work.
6. He did this work, etc.

• In these sentences, the objects ‘a snake’, ‘a song’, ‘a letter’,’ this work, etc. are placed after the verbs ‘killed’, ‘sings’, ‘is writing’ and ‘do,, does, did. The aforesaid subjects ‘Harris, Rafi, Shan, and I, have been placed before the verbs to show that the action is performed by the Subjects. All the aforesaid sentences are count as Active Voice.
• Passive Voice: When the subject of a sentence is acted upon, then the sentence will be count in Passive Voice. It is so because the subject is passive. A verb is said to be in the Passive Voice, when the subject of the verb is acted upon or receives the action, as;

1. A snake was killed by Harris.
2. A song is sung by Rafi.
3. A letter is being written by Shan.
4. This work is done by me.
5. This work was done by him.

•  In these sentences, the subjects ‘a snake’, ‘a song’, ‘a letter, ‘this work’, receives the action done by the objects ‘Harris’, ‘Rafi’, ‘Shan’, and ‘I’, so the verbs: was killed, is sung, is being written, was done, are in Passive Voice.

Active Passive Relation:

Five Basic Changes in Voice:

1. Rule 1: When a verb is changed from the Active into the Passive Voice, the Subject is replaced with Object and Object with Subject. Note: Pronouns are changed as under:

Subject				Object
I We You He She It They	is is is is is is is	changed changed changed changed changed changed changed	into into into into into into into	me us you him her it them

 

1. Rule 2: Only third form of verb is used in Passive Voice.
2. Rule 3: Use the helping verb according to the tense before third form of verb.
3. Rule 4: When subject is placed at the position of object. Its objective case is used. It is then called a agent. Such indefinite and vague subjects as ‘someone’, ‘somebody’, ‘everyone’, ‘everybody’, ‘they’, ‘people’, etc. are dropped.
4. Rule 5: ‘By’ is used with the agent when it helps to complete the sense.

Verb Shapes of Passive Voice

Table of Tenses in Active and Passive:

Tenses	Active Voice	Passive Voice
Simple Present	buys	Is / are bought.
Simple Past	bought	Was / were bought.
Present Continuous	is / are buying	Is / are being bought.
Past Continuous	was / were buying	Was / were being bought.
Present Perfect	has / have bought	Has / have been bought.
Past Perfect	had bought	Had been bought.
Simple Future	shall / will buy	Will be bought.
Conditional	would buy	would be bought
Perfect Conditional	would have bought	Would have been bought.