The rules are:
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Compiled from Grammar Builder Book 3 |
- All passive sentences begin with the person or thing that receives the
action. It must have a passive
verb.
Subject Active verb Object
Active
sentence: Alex painted the
room.
Subject Passive verb Agent
Passive
sentence: The room was
painted by Alex.
*Notice that the
object of the active sentence
becomes the subject of a passive
sentence.
- The tense
of the verb has to remain the same
when we change a sentence from the active
voice to the passive voice.
- My mother sends
me to school every morning. (active
voice, present tense)
- I am sent to school every day by my mother. (passive voice, present tense)
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Compiled from Grammar Builder Book 3 |
- The verb
must agree with the subject in number when we change a sentence from
the active voice to the passive
voice.
Subject Active
verb
Active
sentence: The manager is
distributing documents to (singular) the staff.
Subject Passive verb
Passive
Sentence: Documents are
being to the staff by
(plural) distributed the manager.
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