Voice is a very important grammatical item of English.

Voice is a very important grammatical item of English. By learning voice, students will be able to use different type of sentences in life. They will have to go through all the rules and instructions and then apply correctly. My Youtube video on Voice

Voice is the different kind of expressions in sentences.

Voice is of two kinds-

1) Active Voice

2) Passive Voice

From Active to Passive

Present Indefinite Tense

1) Object will be subject+

2) Am/is/are+

3) Past participle +

4) By+

5) Subject will be object

Example:

They help us.

Þ We are helped by them.

In case of Present Continuous Tense, ‘being’ will added

For example:

He is completing the work.

Þ The work is being completed by him.

In case of Present Perfect Tense, ‘been’ will added

For example:

She has read the book.

Þ The book has been read by her.

Past Indefinite Tense

1) Object will be subject+

2) was/were+

3) Past participle +

4) By+

5) Subject will be object

Example:

Karim wrote a letter.

Þ A letter was written by Karim.

In case of Past Continuous Tense, ‘being’ will added

For example:

He was cutting the tree.

Þ The tree was being cut by him.

In case of Past Perfect Tense, ‘been’ will added

For example:

Ratri had finished the work.

Þ The work had been finished by Ratri.

Future Indefinite Tense

1) Object will be subject+

2) Shall be/will be+

3) Past participle +

4) By+

5) Subject will be object

Example:

We shall see birds.

Þ Birds will be seen by us.

In case of Future Continuous Tense, ‘being’ will added

For example:

You will be doing the task.

Þ The task will be being done by you.

In case of Future Perfect Tense, ‘been’ will added

For example:

I shall have cancelled the function.

Þ The function will have been cancelled by me.

From Passive to Active

In order to return active voice from passive voice, one has to follow tense structures.

For example:

In case of past continuous tense

She was being helped by them.

Þ They were helping her.

Transform the sentences as directed in bracket

Television has become the most common and widespread source of entertainment of the present world. A wide range of programmes of varied interest is telecast on numerous channels. (Active)Almost every middle class and even working class families have a television set today(passive). Television programmes are not only entertaining; they can be highly educative too. For example, television is used for distance learning. (Active)Courses run by the Open University are shown on BTV. Several channels like the Discovery Channel and the National Geographic Channel telecast highly informative programmes. Watching TV, however, has become an addiction for many. Satellite telecasting has added new dimensions to television (passive)but it has sometimes been branded as a cultural assault on developing nations. The East is being exposed more and more to Western music, entertainment and modes of life. (Active)As a result, younger people's tastes are gradually being influenced by them.(Active) A major influence on American children's lives is the television shows they watch. TV viewing statistics are staggering: 96% of US homes have at least one television set, and children aged three to five watch an average of fifty hours of TV every week. By the time these kids graduate from high school, they will have spent more than 22,000(passive) hours in front of the box but only 11,000 hours in school. Most research on the effects of TV on children centers round whether watching so much violence on TV makes them more aggressive. Many studies show that it does. (passive)Indeed TV watching influences children's learning style too. English for Today (HSC old book, U:10,L:1)

Rabindranath, the fourteenth child of Debendranath and Sarada Devi Tagore, went to school early and wrote his first verse at the age of eight. At the age of seventeen, in 1878, he arrived in London, on his way to Brighton, to join his brother's family and attend school there. London made a poor impression on him.(passive) He described it as a dismal city(passive), smoky, foggy and wet, with everyone jostling and in a hurry. Though he was happy in Brighton, a friend of the family persuaded his brother to send him to London in order to benefit from his education in the West. He was put up in a lodging-house facing Regent's Park(Active) but later moved to the house of a professional coach, a Mr Scott, as a paying guest. Young Tagore joined London University where he attended Henry Morley's lectures in English literature and read Religio Medici and Shakespeare with him. He often visited the Houses of Parliament(passive)and listened to Gladstone and John Bright's debates on Irish Home Rule. Away from the home of his brother's family, he was lucky to find a friendly English family with whom he spent some time(passive), but not without some initial opposition from the two daughters in the family, who were rather taken aback with the presence of a 'blackie' in the house and went away to stay with relatives. They returned only after being reassured that the stranger was harmless. Dr and Mrs Scott, the girls' parents, in fact, treated him like a son.(passive) In 1880 Rabindranath was called back to India. His letters, full of admiration for English society, made his family think again about the wisdom of letting him loose in England alone. He returned home without any qualifications of distinction. English for Today (HSC old book, U:12,L:3)

Shaheed Dr. Shamsuzzoha is considered to be the first intellectual(Active) who attained martyrdom during the pre-liberation period of Bangladesh. Following the killing of Sergeant Zohurul Haque in prison by the Ayub Khan government on 15th February 1969 (after the failure of the trumped-up Agartala conspiracy case), a flame of protest spread throughout erstwhile East Pakistan(passive). On February 17, Section 144 was imposed on Rajshahi city. The students of Rajshahi University who had joined the protest, took out a procession in violation of Section 144 and were locked in a clash with police in front of the residence of the Principal of Rajshahi Medical College. As a result, several students were injured. On hearing this, Dr. Zoha, a professor of Chemistry and Proctor of the University, rushed to the spot and took the injured students to hospital. Next morning, on February 18, tension grew on the campus. The students were preparing to violate Section 144 (passive) again. The armed forces were deployed in front of the University main gate, (Active) which was kept locked to prevent the agitating students from going out. The students however started to jump over the gate and to scale the walls. Seeing this, the teachers requested the guard on duty to open the gate. (passive) Meanwhile the students doused a parked army jeep with kerosene and set it on fire. The armed forces started to take up their positions against the students. (passive) Dr. Zoha repeatedly requested the officers, "Please, don't open fire, my students will go back now." But when the army officers refused to pay any heed to him, he declared, 'Your bullets will pierce my heart first before they hit any student. (passive) " The situation deteriorated further and at one point Dr. Zoha was shot in the back at 11 in the morning. Later, he was bayonet charged too. Bleeding profusely, Dr. Zoha was taken to Rajshahi Municipal office which was used as a Jail by the Pakistan Army and was kept untreated there till 3. 30 p.m. He was eventually shifted to the operation theatre(passive) but breathed his last at 4 p.m.