1 Simple Present Tense: Active Voice: The dog chases the cat. Passive Voice: The cat is chased by the dog. 2. Present Continuous Tense: Active Voice: I am eating breakfast. Passive Voice: Breakfast is being eaten by me. 3. Present Perfect Tense: Active Voice: She has written a letter. Passive Voice: A letter has been written by her. 4. RulesActive vs. passive voice Active voice occurs when the subject of a sentence performs the action of the verb, whereas when a sentence is written in passive voice, the subject is the recipient of the action: Active Voice: The teacher took an informal poll. Passive Voice: An informal poll was taken by the teacher. Object+ Verb + Subject Therefore an Active Voice statement always begins with the Subject, followed by the verb and the Object respectively. On the contrary a Passive Voice statement begins with the Object, followed by the verb and then the Subject at last. Tocreate the passive voice, add the verb 'to be' (in the correct tense) and then the main verb. Often a preposition such as 'by' is also used. For example: The patient was (past tense of to be 6 minute read Speaking good English is essential to your education and career, so now the question is How to learn spoken English? It is pretty simple, you need to focus on your basics like tenses, subject-verb agreement, active and passive voice and a few grammar rules. Activeand Passive Voice Rules For All Tenses: 1. Simple Present/ Past/ Future Tense Active: Subject + V1/ V2/ will V1/ shall V1 + object Level beginner Transitive verbs have both active and passive forms: Passive forms are made up of the verb be with a past participle: If we want to show the person or thing doing the action, we use by: She was attacked by a dangerous dog. The money was stolen by her husband. Active and passive voice 1 Active and passive voice 2 Tableof Contents Active And Passive Voice Examples For All Tenses Present Simple Tense Active Passive Sentence Examples Present Continuous Tense Active Passive Sentence Examples Present Perfect Tense Active Passive Sentence Examples Past Simple Tense Active Passive Sentence Examples Past Continuous Tense Active Passive Sentence Examples NounNumbers Opposites Phrasal Verbs Phrases Prefixes Prepositions Pronouns Proverbs Downloadthis explanation in PDF here. See all my exercises about the passive here. An active sentence like I drank two cups of coffee has the subject first (the person or thing that does the verb), followed by the verb, and finally the object (the person or thing that the action happens to).. So, in this example, the subject is 'I', the verb is 'drank' and the object is 'two cups of coffee'. i7nCYXb.