RulesActive vs. passive voice Active voice occurs when the subject of a sentence performs the action of the verb, whereas when a sentence is written in passive voice, the subject is the recipient of the action: Active Voice: The teacher took an informal poll. Passive Voice: An informal poll was taken by the teacher. Rulesfor making the active voice with 'Double object' passive voice. Structure: One object will be subject+ Auxiliary verb+ past participle+ Retained object+by + the subject will be object. Active: I gave him a book. Passive: He was given a book by me. Active: The headmaster teaches us English. Passive: We are taught English by the headmaster. Howto Convert Active Voice into Passive Voice. The chart below includes all tenses that are used in passive voice. There is no passive voice for perfect progressive tenses (present, past, and future) and future progressive tense. ActiveVoice and Passive Voice Rules Chart. The rules for an active and passive voice for different types of tenses are given here, such as: Present simple tense; Present continuous tense; Present perfect tense; Past simple tense; Past continuous tense; Past perfect tense; Future simple tense; Future perfect tense 1 Simple Present Tense: Active Voice: The dog chases the cat. Passive Voice: The cat is chased by the dog. 2. Present Continuous Tense: Active Voice: I am eating breakfast. Passive Voice: Breakfast is being eaten by me. 3. Present Perfect Tense: Active Voice: She has written a letter. Passive Voice: A letter has been written by her. 4. Level beginner Transitive verbs have both active and passive forms: Passive forms are made up of the verb be with a past participle: If we want to show the person or thing doing the action, we use by: She was attacked by a dangerous dog. The money was stolen by her husband. Active and passive voice 1 Active and passive voice 2 YEx7T.

active and passive voice rules for all tenses