It is true
that the passive voice is most talked about by our students. I think we can go
beyond the formal grammar rules and deal with it in the funniest way. That's
-between us- a sort of word games. Let's enjoy talking about the passive voice
in the absence of Mr R.G.R (Rigid Grammar Rule). We will be back biters for a
while, yet I hope in the benefit of both The Passive Voice and our students.
Let's make
one of the old so missed rules our starting point. The rule says: the object of
the active sentence is always the subject of the passive one. But before all
let's see what does the active sentence look like before the operation then go
to discuss the process the doctor follows during the operation and examine the
patient after the operation. It is not an easy work to do, I admit it.
<<The
passive voice of any transitive verb is made by combining its past participle
with the appropriate tense of the verb "to be" >>, the
teacher said. He means that the verb “to be” is always the doctor who can
operate on the sentence successfully in a "passive voice" surgery.
Take this so called the patient active sentence, for instance,
Someone plays the piano every night
This sentence is composed of a subject:
(someone), a verb: (plays), and an object (the
piano). And the latter is the organ that gears the whole operation. It
is the most important part of the utterance to make the operation feasible.
