Voice Change: Voice with “Reflexive objects”
Voice with “Reflexive objects”
Active structure: Subject + Verb + reflexive objective.Passive structure: Subject + auxiliary according to tense + VPP + by + reflexive object.
Examples:
Active: She could not kill herself.
Passive: She could not be killed by herself.
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.
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