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Chapter 2: Unit - 1 · English

all the questions patiently. Passive Voice – Request In Active Voice, a request begins with 'Please'. When we change a request from Active to Passive Voice, we should begin the sentence with ‘You are requested to’ in place of 'Please'. If the request is in negative form, the request in passive voice should begin with ‘You are requested not to’.

(e.g.) . Please assemble in the ground. (Active) You are requested to assemble in the ground. (Passive) Let us recall When we give importance to what people and things do, we use active verb forms.

When we give importance to what happens to people and things, we often use passive verb forms. Transitive verbs are followed by objects. Intransitive verbs do not take objects. 10th - - .

Please do not use mobile phones here. (Active) You are requested not to use mobile phones here. (Passive) Passive Voice – Advice When we change an advice from active to passive voice, we should begin the sentence with ‘You are advised to’. If the advice is in negative form, it should begin with ‘You are advised not to’.

(e.g.) . Work hard (Active) You are advised to work hard. (Passive) . Do not eat junk food.

(Active) You are advised not to eat junk food. (Passive) Passive Voice – Omitting the agent In the sentences beginning with someone/no one, omit the ‘agent’ (subject) in the passive voice. (e.g.) . Somebody has taken away my book.

(Active) My book has been taken away. (Passive) Similarly, you can also use the following for other imperatives.  You are instructed to … You are instructed not to …  You are ordered to … You are ordered not to … . No one has bought the tickets.

(Active) The tickets have not been bought. (Passive) (Add ‘not’ to the verb for nobody, none, no one) Passive Voice – Interrogatives When sentences are changed to Passive, they begin with a verb (in ‘Yes/ No’ questions) or with a question word followed by the verb (in ‘Wh’ questions). a. Questions beginning with Auxiliary verbs

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