Hence, it leads to either of the two following outcomes: A book was given to Martin by Rahul.

Active Voice and Passive Voice Rules Before going into the rules of conversion from active to passive voice and vice versa, one needs to understand a few terms.

Subject: The doer of action in the sentence is the subject.

Object: Object is the word on which the action is performed by the subject.

In active voice, the sentence starts with the subject and ends with the object.

In passive voice, the sentence starts with the object and the subject comes towards the end of the sentence.

So, in a nutshell, If the subject of a sentence does something, then the sentence is said to be in active voice.

If something is done to the subject in a sentence, it is said to be in passive voice.

BE forms of the verb: Recognition of the verb form is extremely important while converting a sentence from active voice to passive voice.

If the Active voice sentence is in The be form in the passive Present Tense am, is are Past Tense was, were Future Tense be Continuous tense (PresentPastFuture) being Perfect tense Been Rules for changing a sentence from active voice to passive voice: The positions of the subject and the object of the sentence are interchanged.

In passive voice, always the third form of the verb (past participle) should be used along with its be form.

In passive voice, the subject is preceded by the preposition by.

According to the tense of the sentence, helping verbs (auxiliary verbs) are used in passive voice.

There will be no change in tense from active voice to passive voice.

Active voice: He sings a song.

He- Subject, sing- verb, a song- Object) Passive voice: A song is sung by him.

The be- form is is used before the verb since the sentence is in simple present tense.) Now, let us take a simple sentence and write passive voice for all the tenses of that sentence.

Eg. Harry eats an Apple.

Now let us write the 12 tenses for this sentence and convert them into passive voice.

Past continuous Harry was eating an apple An apple was being eaten by Harry.

No Passive Voice Simple Future Harry will eat an apple An apple will be eaten by Harry.

No Passive Voice Future Perfect Harry will have eaten an apple.

Future Perfect Continuous Harry will have been eating an apple.

No Passive Voice Note: The following tenses cannot be changed in passive voice: Present Perfect Continuous Tense Past Perfect Continuous Tense Future Continuous Tense Future Perfect Continuous Tense.

Exercise: Convert the following sentences into passive voice: I will deposit the money.

Some other cases: How to transform sentences with two objects If any given sentence in active voice contains two objects, take either of the two objects and convert into passive voice.

In this sentence, there are two objects, i.e., Martin and a book.

Hence this sentence can be converted into passive voice by taking either of those two objects into consideration.

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