Voice Change: Voice with “Present Participle”
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 “Reflexive objects”
Active structure: Subject + Verb + reflexive objective.
Passive structure: Subject + auxiliary according to tense + VPP + by + reflexive object. Examples:
Active: She could not kill herself.
Passive: She could not be killed by herself.
Voice with “Quasi-Passive verb”
Active structure: Subject + Quasi-passive verb + adjective/adverb/V +ing
Passive 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.
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