Active and Passive Voice Rules – Past continuous tense
Active and Passive Voice: Tense-wise Rules
Past continuous tense
Past Continuous Tense
Normal structure of sentence in active voice for past continuous tense is
Subject + was/were + verb + ing + object. (Active Voice)
Ex: She was cooking the food. (Active Voice)
(Here ‘she’ is subject, ‘cooking’ is verb and ‘the food’ is object.)
(Here ‘she’ is subject, ‘cooking’ is verb and ‘the food’ is object.)
While changing the sentence into passive, this structure becomes
Subject + was + being + V-3 + by + agent. (Passive Voice)
Ex: The food was being cooked by her. (Passive Voice)
(Here ‘The food’ becomes subject in passive voice, ‘cooked’ is V-3 (past participle) of cook, and ‘her’ is agent (doer))
(Here ‘The food’ becomes subject in passive voice, ‘cooked’ is V-3 (past participle) of cook, and ‘her’ is agent (doer))
See some more examples to clarify this
- Shubham was writing homework. (Active voice)
Homework was being written by Shubham. (Passive voice)
- Simran was learning English. (Active voice)
English was being learnt by Simran. (Passive voice)
- Sachin was playing cricket. (Active Voice)
Cricket was being played by Sachin. (Passive Voice)
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