Read the following sentences:
1. Active: Does Saritha like ice-cream?
Passive: Is ice-cream liked by Saritha? (NOT Do ice cream liked by the children?)
2 Active: Did you heat the water?
Passive: Was the water heated by you? (NOT Did water heated by you?)
Note The auxiliaries do, does and did are not used in the passive.
Active:Have you completed your homework?
Passive: Has your homework completed by you?
Note: The auxiliaries has, have and had were used in the passive, but they change their form according to the number and person of the passive subject.
Active: Can we break it?
Passive: Can it be broken?
Active: Will he invite us?
Passive: Will we be invited by him?
Note:The auxiliaries can, may, will and shall do not change their beginning position when active voice is changed into the passive voice.
Active: Whom did you laugh at?
Passive: Who was laughed at by you?
Active: Who bought the new car?
Passive: By whom was the new car bought?
Note: Who changes to, "by whom" in the passive: (by) whom changes to who in the passive.
Active: Why did he bring the cabs?
Passive: Why were the cabs brought by him?
Note:
The question words when, where, how, why and what do not change their beginning position when the sentence is changed from the active to the passive.
Read the following sentences:
1. Active: Does Saritha like ice-cream?
Passive: Is ice-cream liked by Saritha? (NOT Do ice cream liked by the children?)
2 Active: Did you heat the water?
Passive: Was the water heated by you? (NOT Did water heated by you?)
Note The auxiliaries do, does and did are not used in the passive.
Active:Have you completed your homework?
Passive: Has your homework completed by you?
Note: The auxiliaries has, have and had were used in the passive, but they change their form according to the number and person of the passive subject.
Active: Can we break it?
Passive: Can it be broken?
Active: Will he invite us?
Passive: Will we be invited by him?
Note:The auxiliaries can, may, will and shall do not change their beginning position when active voice is changed into the passive voice.
Active: Whom did you laugh at?
Passive: Who was laughed at by you?
Active: Who bought the new car?
Passive: By whom was the new car bought?
Note: Who changes to, "by whom" in the passive: (by) whom changes to who in the passive.
Active: Why did he bring the cabs?
Passive: Why were the cabs brought by him?
Note:
The question words when, where, how, why and what do not change their beginning position when the sentence is changed from the active to the passive.