Active and passive voice rules for all tenses pdf

Active and passive voice with Imperative Sentences These are the sentences in which we express our feeling and emotions like command, order, advice, and request. Rules 1. Lets + new object + be/Not be +past participle or 3 form. 2. For sentences containing, Request, advice and order, we will use you are Requested to, advised to and ordered to . Anxious, inexperienced authors obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers, break rules. Artists master the form. (Robert McKee) The author seeks to shed light on the current debate on passive vs. active voice in modern English, to give some of its history and rationale, and to explain why there will and always should be such a debate. We emphasize the importance of the passive voice in general (lay) English and in the language of science. The study applied mixed methods to reveal several specific cases of passive vs. active voice preference and the combination of both. Finally, we discuss relevant editing techniques and make recommendations for improving teaching the category of voice in EFL classroom. У статті зроблено спробу розгляду деяких спірних питань функціонування пасивного стану порівняно з активним у сучасній англійській мові. Надано побіжний огляд історії питання та з'ясовано причини такого стану справ. Увага акцентується на важливості пасивного стану як у загальнонародній мові, так і у мові науки. Проаналізовано конкретні складні випадки переважного вживання пасивного або активного стану та їх комбінування. Запропоновано...

• • active sentence like I drank two cups of coffee has the subject first (the person or thing that does the verb), followed by the verb, and finally the object (the person or thing that the action happens to). So, in this example, the subject is 'I', the verb is 'drank' and the object is 'two cups of coffee'. But, we don't always need to make sentences this way. We might want to put the object first, or perhaps we don't want to say who did something. This can happen for lots of reasons (see the explanation further down the page). In this case, we can use a passive, which puts the object first: • Two cups of coffee were drunk (we can add 'by me' if we want, but it isn't necessary). How to make the Passive in English We make the passive by putting the verb 'to be' into whatever tense we need and then adding the play becomes played. Tense Active Passive I make a cake. A cake is made (by me). I am making a cake. A cake is being made (by me). I made a cake. A cake was made (by me). I was making a cake. A cake was being made (by me). I have made a cake. A cake has been made (by me). I have been making a cake. A cake has been being made (by me). I had made a cake. A cake had been made (by me). I will make a cake. A cake will be made (by me). I will have made a cake. A cake will have been made (by me). Practise with Verbs with two objects Some verbs that have two objects can make two different active sentences, and so two different passive sentences too: Give • Active: He gave me...