Active and Passive Voice Rules with Examples

Topics in this chapter

1. What Is Voice?page 1
2. Active Voicepage 1
3. Passive Voicepage 2
4. When Do We Use the Passive?page 2
5. General Rules for Changing Active into Passivepage 3
6. Pronoun Changes in the Passivepage 4
7. Passive Voice: Master Formula Tablepage 4
8. Present Indefinite Passive: Affirmativepage 5
9. Present Indefinite Passive: Negative and Interrogativepage 6
10. Present Continuous Passive: Affirmativepage 7
11. Present Continuous Passive: Negative and Interrogativepage 8
12. Present Perfect Passive: Affirmativepage 9
13. Present Perfect Passive: Negative and Interrogativepage 10
14. Past Indefinite Passive: Affirmativepage 11
15. Past Indefinite Passive: Negative and Interrogativepage 12
16. Past Continuous Passive: Affirmativepage 13
17. Past Continuous Passive: Negative and Interrogativepage 14
18. Past Perfect Passive: Affirmativepage 15
19. Past Perfect Passive: Negative and Interrogativepage 15
20. Future Indefinite Passive: Affirmativepage 17
21. Future Indefinite Passive: Negative and Interrogativepage 17
22. Future Perfect Passive: Affirmativepage 19
23. Future Perfect Passive: Negative and Interrogativepage 19
24. Negative Interrogative Passive (All Tenses)page 20
25. Imperative Passive with "Let"page 21
26. Imperative Passive: Request, Order and Advicepage 22
27. Negative Imperative Passivepage 23
28. Modal Passive: Affirmativepage 24
29. Modal Passive: Negative and Interrogativepage 24
30. Perfect Modal Passivepage 26
31. Semi-Modal Passive (Have to, Going to, Usedpage 26
32. Verbs with Two Objectspage 27
33. Passive of Wh-Questionspage 27
34. Prepositional and Phrasal Verbspage 28
35. Make, See, Hear in the Passivepage 29
36. Passive without an Agentpage 30
37. "It Is Said That" and "He Is Said to"page 30
38. Passive with Prepositions Other Than "By"page 31
39. Infinitive and Gerund Passivepage 32
40. Get Passive and Causative Havepage 32
41. Changing Passive into Activepage 33
42. Sentences That Cannot Be Changed into Passivepage 34
43. Passive Voice: Common Errorspage 35
44. Passive Voice: Summary Chartpage 35