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                      Active voice and Passive voice

Let me say a few words before I start writing tonight's post. My blog is dedicated to my students ranging from class seven to class twelve. I am trying to be of some assistance to them. I want to make it very clear that this is not a blog for the learned people. There are many good blogs for them.Search Google. For my students I have an announcement to make. In August I propose to post some lessons for the Madhyamik Students. Please look out for them here.

Tonight I propose to introduce lessons on VOICE CHANGE. Let us begin with Active Voice. I hope you remember the SVO ( Subject+verb+object ) pattern of sentences. When the subject does something directly it is in the Passive Voice. No agent is needed here. Examples;
1. Debolina reads a poem.
2. Pritha sang a modern Bengali song.
3. Sukanya will cook a delicious dish for Apratim.
4. Boys are flying kites.
5.Samrat was designing a blog.
6. Devangi has worked out the sums.
7. Sutista had delivered a beautiful speech.
8. Shramana will have finished her job before her friend comes home.

You will notice two things in the 8 sentences that I have typed above. First of all in all the sentences the subjects have done the work/task and this fact has been stated in a straightforward way. Every sentence has an object. Secondly I have used only eight tenses. You can recognise the tenses, don't you? They are a) Present Indefinite Tense b) Past Indefinite Tense c) Future Indefinite Tense d) Present Continuous Tense e ) Past Continuous Tense f ) Present Perfect Tense g ) Past Perfect Tense and h ) Future Perfect Tense. It means we can write these tenses in the Passive Voice. The remaining four tenses cannot be written in the passive voice. Now let us write the above mentioned 8 sentences in the passive voice.

1.A poem is read by Debolina.
2.A modern Bengali song was sung by Pritha.
3.A delicious dish will be cooked for Apratim by Sukanya.
4.Kites are being flown by boys.
5.A blog was being designed by Samrat.
6.The sums have been worked out by Devangi.
7.A beautiful speech had been delivered by Sutista.
8. Her job will have been finished by Shramana before her friend comes home.

Study the passive form of verbs attentively. We shall discuss about the rules in the next lesson.*****