Voice Change: Voice with “Gerund”
Voice with “Gerund”
Transitive verbs that take gerunds: advise, insist, propose, recommend, suggest, admit, anticipate, avoid, consider, contemplate, delay, defer, deny, detest, dislike, discuss, enjoy, escape, excuse, fancy, finish, forgive, imagine, involve, keep, loathe, mind, miss, practice, pardon, postpone, resume, recollect, recall, risk, report, remember, resent, resist, start, stop, tolerate, understand, quiet etc. Active structure: Subject + verb + gerund + object of gerundPassive structure: Subject + verb + that + object of gerund + should be + VPP (of gerund)
- There are variations according to meaning
Active: They unanimously proposed to hold a meeting.
Passive: They unanimously proposed that a meeting should be held.
Active: We insist on playing the music late at night.
Passive: We insist that the music should be played late at night.
Active: She avoids meeting her friends.
Passive: She avoids that her friends are not met.
Active: We can vividly remember making our first plane journey.
Passive: We can vividly remember that our first plane journey was made.
Voice with “Present Participle”
Transitive Verbs that take present participle: catch, describe, feel, find, hear, imagine, keep, leave, like, notice, observe, picture, prevent, save, see, send, spot, stop, want, watchActive structure: Subject + Verb + object + present participle + (object of participle)
Passive structure: Object + Auxiliary + VPP + present participle + (object of participle) + by + subject. Examples: Active: We saw him watching an extraordinarily enjoyable English movie.
Passive: He was seen watching an extraordinarily enjoyable English movie by us.
Voice with “it is/was time”
Active structure 1: It is time + to + verb + object.Passive structure 1: It is time + that + object + should be + VPP.
Or, It is time + for + object + to be + VPP. Examples:
Active: It is time to do the work.
Passive: It is time that the work should be done (or It is time for the work to be done).
Active structure 2: It is time + subject + V2 + object.
Passive structure 2: It is time + for /(that)+ object + auxiliary + to be/(should be) +VPP + by + subject. Examples: Active: It is time we changed our winning strategy.
Passive: It is time for our winning strategy to be changed by us.
Active: It is time they re-encountered the gang. Passive: It is time that the gang should be re-encountered by them.
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