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2. Mr Walsh will the bill for the meal.

3. The police officers were the man who was approaching the shop.

4. James could not the fact that it was his best friend who had

cheated him.
5. ‘ over the child now,’’ the police warned the kidnapper.

6. I tried to the answer to Polly so that the other teams would not
hear it.

Language Ladder GRAMMAR Language Skills

Active and Passive voice

u Two large eyes were looking at me steadily.
(doer) (action) (receiver)

u When the doer of the action is the subject of the sentence, we say that the sentence
is in the active voice. The receiver comes after the action.

The young man had been pushed by the crowd.

(subject) (action) (doer)
When the action in a sentence is done to the subject, we say that the sentence is in the

passive voice. Sometimes, there is no doer in the sentence.
u Dessert is served after dinner.

(be) (past participle of the verb serve)

u A beautiful picture was hung on the wall.
(be) (past participle of the verb hang)

u Water is being pumped from the tubewell to every farm.
(be) (past participle of the verb pump)

u The goats were being chased out of the field.
(be) (past participle of the verb chase)

u Rajan has been told to remove his bicycle from the porch.

(be) (past participle of the verb tell)
u The supervisor had been promoted just a year ago.

(be) (past participle of the verb promote)

u A medal will be given to the winning team.
(be) (past participle of the verb give)

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