Active and Passive Voice

Past perfect continuous

Step 1: Review passive voice formation rules. Step 2: Simple tenses and perfect tenses can be converted to passive voice. Step 3: Present and past continuous can be converted to passive voice. Step 4: Perfect continuous tenses are rarely used in passive voice due to complexity. Step 5: Past perfect continuous in passive would be extremely awkward and is generally avoided in standard usage.

A new school is being built by them.

Step 1: Identify the tense - present continuous ('are building'). Step 2: Object 'a new school' becomes the subject. Step 3: Present continuous passive uses 'is/are being + past participle'. Step 4: 'building' becomes 'being built'. Step 5: Present continuous active 'are building' transforms to present continuous passive 'is being built'.

He reads books daily.

Step 1: Understand that only transitive verbs can have passive voice. Step 2: Check each verb for objects. Step 3: 'laughed', 'arrived', and 'sleeps' have no direct objects (intransitive). Step 4: 'reads' has a direct object 'books' (transitive). Step 5: Only transitive verbs can be converted to passive voice, as they transfer action to an object.

The project will be completed by the students tomorrow.

Step 1: Identify the tense - simple future ('will complete'). Step 2: Object 'the project' becomes the subject. Step 3: Simple future passive uses 'will be + past participle'. Step 4: 'complete' becomes 'completed'. Step 5: Add 'by the students' and maintain the time expression 'tomorrow'. Simple future active 'will complete' becomes 'will be completed'.