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• In today’s global world, the importance of English can not be denied and ignored since English is the most common language spoken everywhere.

• With the help of developing technology, English has been playing a major role in many sectors including medicine, engineering, and education.

• A verb is said to be in active voice when its form shows that the person or thing denoted by the subject does something .

• Example

• Rama helps Hari .• Savitri loves Sita .• The peon opened te gate .

• A verb is in the passive voice when its form shows that something is done to the person of thing denoted by the subject .

• Example -

• Rama is helped by Hari .• Savitri is loved by Sita .• The gate was opened by the peon .

Active and Passive voice

Both the

sentences

mean the

same .

Sentence in

the Active

Voice

changes .

The tiger was killed by the hunter .

The hunter

killed the tiger .

Compare these two sentences -

The tiger was killedby the tiger .

The hunter killed the tiger .

• The given two sentences express the same meaning .

• But , in sentence 1 the form of verb shows that the person denoted by the subject does something .

• In sentence 2 , the form of verb shows that something is done to the person denoted by the subject .

Active Voice

Meena helps Rama.

Passive Voice

Rama is helped by Meena .

Active Voice

Sita loves Savitri .

Passive voice

Savitri is loved by Sita .

Active Voice

The peon opened the gate .

Passive Voice

The gate was opened by the peon .

Sir , the man killed

the innocent woman here .

No , you stupid !

the woman

was killed by the

man here . But …!!

Efforts made by Kanishka and Sneha .