Use of Participles and The Active and Passive Voice

Use of Participles and The Active and Passive Voice

​What are Participles?

• A Participle is a form of a verb that can do the job of an adjective and also helps form certain verb tenses.

• Present Participle: Formed by adding '-ing' to the base verb. Used to describe ongoing actions or conditions.

  Examples: running, swimming, laughing

• Past Participle: Typically ends in -ed, -d, -t, -en, or -n for regular and irregular verbs. Used to describe completed actions or states.

  Examples: walked, burnt, chosen, seen

The Participle as Adjectives

As an adjective, the Participle can be used in the following manner:

• The sinking ship.

• The burning house.

• The decorated hall.

• The copied idea.
  
  

Multiple Choice

Fill in the blank in the following sentence, by choosing the participle from the options :

The __________ saucer was seen near our house yesterday.

• fly

• flying

• flew

• flown

Fill in the Blanks

​The Participle is different from the Gerund

Never get confused between the Participle and the Gerund.

• Participles function as adjectives, modifying nouns or pronouns. They can describe the characteristics or states of nouns and can be found in various verb tenses.
  

• Gerunds function as nouns. They can act as subjects, objects, or the complement of a sentence, essentially fulfilling any role that a noun can perform.

Drag and Drop

Choose the correct word to fill in the blank, by dragging and dropping the right word:
A ​

Placeholder

stone gathers no moss.​

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

rolling

roll

rolled

Reorder

Reorder the following jumbled words to create a sentence with a participle.

• The

• broken

• window

• looks

• bad

1

2

3

4

5

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

Let us Summarize​

1. Participles are formed from verbs by adding suffixes such as 'ing', 'ed', 'd', or 'en'.

2. These participles primarily function as adjectives to modify nouns or pronouns in sentences.

​ The Active Voice

• In the English language, there are two voices- The Active voice and the Passive voice. Let us explore the Active Voice:

• In the Active Voice, the noun or the pronoun is the doer of the action.
  

  Example:

• The leopard killed the deer yesterday.

• The woodcutter cuts trees.

The Passive Voice

• In the Passive Voice, subject takes the place of the object, and the object takes the place of the subject:

  Example:

• Active voice
  The woodcutter cuts trees every day.

• Passive voice
  Trees are cut by the woodcutter every day.
  (The tree which is the direct object in the Active voice, takes the place of the subject in the Passive voice).

​The rules of Active Voice and Passive Voice

Here are the different structures of both, the Active Voice and the Passive Voice types:

Active Voice: Subject + Verb+ Object
The subject is the performer of the action.

Passive Voice : Object (from active voice) + Form of "to be" + Past Participle of Verb + (optionally) "by" + Subject (from active voice)
In the Passive voice format, the subject receives the action.

​Differences between Active Voice and Passive Voice

​Active Voice	​Passive Voice
​The subject of the sentence is the doer of the action.	​The subject is 'acted upon' by the action.
​The verb can be used straightaway; it does not require an auxiliary verb.	​The verb requires an auxiliary verb.
In the active voice, the subject takes responsibility for the action	In the passive voice, the object of the active voice takes the position of the subject.

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct word from the options that transforms the active voice sentence to its passive voice:

The dog ate the bone.

• The bone was eaten by the dog.

• The bone ate the dog.

• The dog is eating the bone.

• The dog was eaten by the bone.

Drag and Drop

Choose the correct option from the options, and drag it to the blank, to make a proper sentence in the Active Voice:
My uncle ​

Placeholder

a huge car to the office daily.​

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

driving

driven

drives

Multiple Choice

Select the correct option for the passive voice form of the sentence below:

The aliens healed the earth.

• The earth was healed by the aliens.

• The earth was healing by the aliens.

• The earth healed the aliens.

• The aliens healed the aliens.

Match

Classify each of the following sentences as either "Active Voice" or "Passive Voice":

• The teacher assigns homework every Friday.

• Homework is assigned by the teacher every Friday.

• A mysterious figure opened the ancient tomb.

• The ancient tomb was opened by a mysterious figure.

Active Voice

Passive Voice

Active Voice

Passive Voice

• Active Voice

• Passive Voice

• Active Voice

• Passive Voice

Let us Summarize

1. In the Active Voice, the structure is Subject + Verb + Object.

2. In the Passive Voice, the structure is Object + Form of 'to be' + Past Participle of Verb + (by + Subject).