Passive Voice For Auxiliary Verbs


 
 
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Passive Voice For Auxiliary Verbs

Conversion of Active Voice Sentence into Passive Voice For Auxiliary Verbs:

Rule used to identify that the sentence is in Active Voice form with Auxiliary Verbs is:

Subject+ Modals verb + object (active)

For Example: 

  •  She can cook the food.
  •  Here she is subject , cook  is verb and the food is object.

    While converting into Passive Voice the rule will be :

    Subject + modals + be + third form of verb + by + agent (passive).

    Example: The food can be cooked by her.

     Here, the object 'the food' becomes subject in passive voice cooked is third form of verb (past participle) of cook and her is agent (does).

    For Negative sentence:

    Rule: subject + modal + not + first form of verb + object

    For Example:

  • He cannot drive a car.( active)
  • The object 'him' will change into subject and the subject 'he' will change into object and the verb first form will be used according to the  rule.

    While converting into Active Voice the rule will be :

    Rule: subject + modal + not + be + third form of the verb + by + object

  •  A car cannot be driven by him.( passive)
  • Here,'A car' is subject, 'can' is modal ,'driven' is the third form of drive and 'him' is an object.For interrogative Sentence:    

    Rule: :modal + subject + first form of the verb + object        

    For Example: 

  • Can he drive a car? (active)
  • The object 'a car' will change into subject and the subject 'he' will change into object and the verb first form will be used according to the  rule.

     While converting into Active Voice the rule will be :

    Rule: modal + subject + be + third form of the verb +by+object

  • Can a car be driven by him? (passive)
  • Here, 'can' is the modal which will be remain same(position is not changed), 'A car" is subject, 'can' is modal ,'driven' is the third form of drive and 'him' is an object.

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    Question : 1

    Change active voice into passive voice .

    1. She might finish the task .

    2. He might win a prize .

    Right Option : A
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    Question : 2

    Change active voice into passive voice.

    They ought to take the examination.

    Right Option : D
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    Question : 3

    Change active voice into passive voice for auxiliary verb .

    You ought not to clean this house .

    Right Option : C
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