Voice

VOICE:

In traditional grammar, voice refers to the quality of a verb that indicates whether its subject acts (active voice) or is acted upon (passive voice). The distinction between active and passive voice applies only to transitive verbs.

Ø  Objective is changed into subject; modal auxiliary if any is kept the same and appropriate form of ‘be’ (i.e. is, am, are, was, were, been, being) + V₃ is used.

Ø  Subject is changed into object if it is not vague, otherwise omitted.

Ø  If a sentence starts with primary auxiliary ‘do’ (do/does/did) then passive voice starts with appropriate form of be (i.e. is, am, are, was, were)

Ø  ‘Who’ changes into ‘by whom’ in passive voice?

Ø  Why, when, how, used in the beginning of active voice does not change its form in the passive voice.

Ø  Passive of imperative sentence begins with ‘let’.