Voice Change: Voice with “Modals”
Voice with “Modals”
Modals: may, might, can, could, shall, will, should, would, must, need, dare, ought to, used to, be to, have to, be going to etc.Active Structure: Subject + modal V + Main V + object.
Passive Structure: Object + modal V + be + Main VPP + by + subject. Examples: Active: The new workers can distribute the mangoes equally.
Passive: The mangoes can be distributed equally by the new workers.
Active structure: Subject + modal + be + Verb + ing + object.
Passive structure: Object + modal + be + being + VPP + by+ Subject. Examples:
Active: We should be helping the needy.
Passive: The needy should be being helped by us.
Active: The stout foxes might be befooling the younger ones.
Passive: The younger ones might be being befooled by the stout foxes.
Active: You could be changing the voice.
Passive: The voice could be being changed by you.
Active structure: Subject + modal + have + VPP + object.
Passive structure: Object + modal + have + been + VPP + by+ subject. Examples:
Active: We ought to have changed our decision.
Passive: Our decision ought to have been changed by us.
Active structure: Subject + modal + have + been + V + ing + object
Passive structure: Object + modal + have + been + being + VPP + by + subject. Examples:
Active: We must have been using improved technology in medical science.
Passive: Improved technology must have been being used in medical science by us.
Voice with “Quasi-Passive verb”
Active structure: Subject + Quasi-passive verb + adjective/adverb/V +ingPassive structure: Subject + auxiliary + VPP of Quasi-passive +adjective/adverb/ V+ing
Examples: Active: Honey tastes sweet.
Passive: Honey is tasted sweet. (or Honey is sweet when /if it is tasted)
Active: The book reads well.
Passive: The book is read well.
Active: The building is building.
Passive: The building is being built.
Active: Rice sells cheap.
Passive: Rice is sold cheap or Rice is cheap when it is sold.
Voice with “cognate object”
Verbs that take cognate objects: run, think, dance, sleep, dream, live, smile, die, laugh, sigh, fight etc.Active structure: Subject + verb + cognate object.
Passive structure: Cognate object + auxiliary + VPP + by + subject.
Examples:
Active : He ran a race.
Passive : A race was run by him.
Active : He thinks of a great thought.
Passive : A great thought is thought of by him.
Active : The boy ran a race.
Passive : A race was run by the boy.
Active : Mamta dreamt a sweet dream.
Passive : A sweet dream was dreamt by Mamta.
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