Voice Change: Voice with “Quasi-Passive verb”
Voice with “Quasi-Passive verb”
Active structure: Subject + Quasi-passive verb + adjective/adverb/V +ingPassive 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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