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A. Underline the verbs in the following sentences and state whether they are in
the active voice or in the passive voice.

1. Nigella Lawson cooked an excellent meal.
2. Pranab Mukherjee was elected President Note
of India. 1. A verb in the future
continuous tense or any
3. We should not laugh at someone’s mistake.
of the perfect continuous
4. The thief has been caught by the police. tenses has no passive voice
form.
5. Nelson Mandela opposed the apartheid
system in South Africa. 2. The change in voice from
active to passive can be
6. Gravity was discovered by Isaac Newton. done only for verbs which
7. Honey is made by bees. are used transitively.

8. The child did not break the jar.

9. I do not like being told what to do.
10. English is being taught to us by Mrs Saha.

Note

Active voice sentences with no particular or definite subject can be transformed into the
passive voice. In such passive voice sentence, by + doer is dropped. For example,
• One should ignore rude people. • They built the road in 2008.

• Rude people should be ignored. • The road was built in 2008.

B. Change the voice of the verb from active to passive in
the following sentences.

1. A greengrocer sells vegetables.

2. Mother Teresa helped the poor.
3. Boys like action heroes.

4. Thieves burgled the Nokia mobile store at Connaught Place.

5. We have forgotten our war heroes.
6. A mother loves her child.

7. Rabindranath Tagore wrote the Gitanjali.

8. Aryabhatta invented the number zero.
9. The students asked the teacher a difficult question.

10. The Government is introducing several new schemes.

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