Voice Change: Voice with “Modals”


Voice with “Modals”

Modals: may, might, can, could, shall, will, should, would, must, need, dare, ought to, used to, be to, have to, be going to etc.

Active Structure: Subject + modal V + Main V + object.

Passive Structure: Object + modal V + be + Main VPP + by + subject. Examples: Active: The new workers can distribute the mangoes equally.

Passive: The mangoes can be distributed equally by the new workers.

Active structure: Subject + modal + be + Verb + ing + object.

Passive structure: Object + modal + be + being + VPP + by+ Subject. Examples:

Active: We should be helping the needy.

Passive: The needy should be being helped by us.

Active: The stout foxes might be befooling the younger ones.

Passive: The younger ones might be being befooled by the stout foxes.

Active: You could be changing the voice.

Passive: The voice could be being changed by you.

Active structure: Subject + modal + have + VPP + object.

Passive structure: Object + modal + have + been + VPP + by+ subject. Examples:

Active: We ought to have changed our decision.

Passive: Our decision ought to have been changed by us.

Active structure: Subject + modal + have + been + V + ing + object

Passive structure: Object + modal + have + been + being + VPP + by + subject. Examples:

Active: We must have been using improved technology in medical science.

Passive: Improved technology must have been being used in medical science by us.

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.

Voice with “cognate object”

Verbs that take cognate objects: run, think, dance, sleep, dream, live, smile, die, laugh, sigh, fight etc.

Active structure: Subject + verb + cognate object.

Passive structure: Cognate object + auxiliary + VPP + by + subject.

Examples:

Active              : He ran a race.

Passive            : A race was run by him.

Active              : He thinks of a great thought.

Passive           : A great thought is thought of by him.

Active             : The boy ran a race.

Passive          : A race was run by the boy.

Active            : Mamta dreamt a sweet dream.

Passive         : A sweet dream was dreamt by Mamta.

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