Simple Future Tense

Active: Subject + will/shall + first form of the verb + object

Passive: Object of the active sentence + will/shall + be + past participle form of the verb +
by + subject of the active sentence
Active: I will write a letter.
Passive: A letter will be written by me.
Active: She will help me.
Passive: I will be helped by her.
Active: John will learn the lesson.
Passive: The lesson will be learnt by John.
Changing a negative sentence into the passive
Active: She will not help us.
Passive: We will not be helped by her.
Active: We will not visit the hill station this year.
Passive: The hill station will not be visited by us this year.
Active: We shall not betray our country.
Passive: Our country shall not be betrayed by us.
Changing an Interrogative sentence into the passive
Active: Will you help him?
Passive: Will he be helped by you?
Active: Will you not help me?
Passive: Shall I not be helped by you?
Active: Will they accept our invitation?
Passive: Will our invitation be accepted by them?
Future perfect tense
Active: Subject + will/shall + have + past participle form of the verb + object
Passive: Object of the active sentence + will/shall + have + been + past participle form of the verb
+ by + subject of the active sentence
Active: We shall not have accepted the invitation.
Passive: The invitation shall not have been accepted by us.
Active: She will have finished her work.
Passive: Her work will have been finished by her.
Active: They will have elected him their leader.
Passive: He will have been elected their leader (by them).
Changing an interrogative sentence into the passive
Active: Will she have cooked the food?
Passive: Will the food have been cooked by her?
Active: Will they have received our letter?
Passive: Will our letter have been received by them?
Active: Will they have caught the train?
Passive: Will the train have been caught by them?
Active: Who will have opposed you?
Passive: By whom will you have been opposed?
Notes
Active sentences in the future continuous and future perfect continuous tenses cannot be changed
to the passive.
Changing a sentence into the passive voice when the active verb is in the simple future
tense
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We make simple future tense forms by putting will / shall before the base form (infinitive) of the
verb.

 I will finish the job tomorrow.

  She will come tomorrow.

If the sentence in the active voice consists of an object, we can change it into the passive. In the
example sentences given above, the first one has an object (the job). We can convert it into the
passive voice.

 The job will be finished (by me) tomorrow.

The second sentence (She will come tomorrow) doesn’t have an object. Therefore we cannot
convert it into the passive because there is nothing to become the subject of the passive verb.

The passive verb form in the simple future tense is made by putting will / shall + be before the
past participle form of the verb.

Active form: will/shall + first form of the verb

Passive form: will/shall + be + past participle form of the verb

Exercise

Change the following sentences into the passive.

1. They will tell you when the time comes.

2. She will accept the offer.

3. I will finish the job by Monday.

4. I will prepare the dinner before you come.

5. You will never forget this lesson.

Answers

1. You will be told (by them) when the time comes.

2. The offer will be accepted by her.

3. The job will be finished (by me) by Monday.

4. The dinner will be prepared (by me) before you come.

5. This lesson will never be forgotten by you.

Simple Future Tense into Passive Voice

English Grammar Index

Simple Future Tense into Passive Voice :

1. Kanaga will sing a song. (active voice)

 A song will be sung by Kanaga. (Passive voice)

2. She will distribute chocolates. (active voice)

Chocolates will be distributed by her. (passive voice)

3. They will finish the work tomorrow. (active voice)

The work will be finished tomorrow by them. (passive voice)

4. Vengatesh will win the first prize. (active voice)

The first prize will be won by Vengatesh. (passive voice)

5. We shall act on your advice. (active voice)

Your advice will be acted on by us. (passive voice)

In English grammar, the simple future is a form of the verb that refers to an action or event that
has not yet begun. As illustrated below (in Examples and Observations), the simple future is also
used to make a prediction or to show ability, intention, or determination. Also called the future
simple

The simple future is a verb tense that's used to talk about things that haven't happened yet. ...
Use the simple future to talk about an action or condition that will begin and end in the future.

Future tense also has four forms. Simple Future (Future Indefinite) is used when an action is
promised/thought to occur in the future. Example - We shall move to ...

Active sentences in the present perfect tense have the following structure:
Subject + has/have + past participle form of the verb + object
Passive sentences in the present perfect tense have the following structure:
Object of the active sentence + has/have + been + past participle form of the verb + by +
subject of the active sentence
Changing an assertive sentence into the passive
Active: I have written a story.
Passive: A story has been written by me.
Active: They have built a house.
Passive: A house has been built by them.
Active: He has broken my window.
Passive: My window has been broken by him.
Active: I have placed an order for a digital camera.
Passive: An order for a digital camera has been placed by me.
 Active: She has done her work.
Passive: Her work has been done by her.
Changing a negative sentence into the passive
Active: I have not received a telegram.
Passive: A telegram has not been received by me.
Active: She has not written a story.
Passive: A story has not been written by her.
Active: She has not cheated anybody.
Passive: Nobody has been cheated by her.
Changing an interrogative sentence into the passive
Passive forms of these sentences will begin with has or have. When the active sentence begins
with a question word (e.g. when, where, which, why etc.), the passive sentence will also begin with
a question word. When the active sentence begins with who or whose the passive sentence will
begin with by whom or by whose. When the active sentence begins with whom, the passive
sentence will begin with who.
Active: Have you kept the secret?
Passive: Has the secret been kept by you?
Active: Who has done this?
Passive: By whom has this been done?
Active: Why have you told a lie?
Passive: Why has a lie been told by you?
Active: Who has torn my book?
Passive: By whom has my book been torn?
Active: Have you written the letter?
Passive: Has the letter been written by you?
Active: Has the policeman caught the thief?
Passive: Has the thief been caught by the policeman?
Active: Has the postal department released a new stamp?
Passive: Has a new stamp been released by the postal department?

How do you make the present perfect passive?

In the present perfect tense we make passive verb forms by putting has/have + been before the
past participle form of the verb.

What is present perfect tense in passive voice?

In sentences in passive voice and present perfect tense, the present tense form of the verb
'has/have' is added to past participle 'been' followed by the past participle of the main verb which
denotes the tense. ... 'Has/have + not + been + past participle of main verb (third form).'

How do you change passive voice to active exercise?

To change an active voice sentence to a passive voice sentence:
1. Make the object of the active sentence into the subject of the passive sentence.
2. Use the verb “to be” in the same tense as the main verb of the active sentence.
3. Use the past participle of the main verb of the active sentence.

PRESENT PERFECT TENSE

Active Voice:[Sub+ have/has + V3 +obj.]

1. I have eaten food.

2. She has cooked food.
3. Rajnee has watched T. V.
4. Jyoti has plucked flower.
5. We have sung a song.

Passive Voice: [Obj+ have/has + been +V3 + by+Sub3]

1. Food has been eaten by me

2. Food has been cooked by her.
3. V. has been watched by Rajnee.
4. Flower has been plucked by Jyoti.
5. A song has been sung by us.

Change into Passive Voice

1. I have plucked the flower.

2. We have driven a car.
3. She has stolen my purse.
4. I have crossed the river.
5. I have served the food.
6. We have revised our lesson.
7. A dog has bitten you.
8. They have taken the breakfast.
9. You have bought the fruits.

In English, the perfect tenses denote events that have ended, are ending, or will end in time. In the present perfect
tense, the action is completed with respect to the present at some indefinite time in the recent past, as in “We have
just participated in a nationwide earthquake drill.” In the past perfect tense, a past action was completed with
respect to another past action or event, as in “She had been to Stockholm before she visited her own hometown.”
And in the future perfect tense, the future action will be completed with respect to another future action or event:
“They will have raised the sunken boat by this weekend.”

All of the perfect-tense sentences I presented are in the active voice, which means that the subject of the sentence is
the one doing the verb’s action. Active-voice sentences in the present perfect use the auxiliary verb “has” (singular)
or “have” (plural) with the past participle of the verb, as in “My friend has taken a new job”; those in the past perfect
use the auxiliary verb “had” with the past participle, as in “Bernadette had left for school when classes were
suspended”; and those in the future perfect pair off the auxiliary verbs “will” and “have” with the past participle, as
in “The engineer will have worked in North Borneo for 15 years when he retires.”

In contrast to active-voice sentences, passive-voice sentences are those in which the grammatical subject of the verb
is the recipient (not the source) of the verb’s action. They give us the option to make the indirect object, direct
object, or the act itself the subject of the statement. For example, the active-voice sentence “The dog chased the
mouse” can take the passive-voice form “The mouse was chased by the dog.”

Having already clearly defined the basic parameters of the perfect tenses and of voice, we should now be able to tackle
the passive-voice equivalents of the three basic perfect tenses.

In the passive voice, the present perfect tense uses the form “has/have” + “been” + the past participle of the verb, as in
“The woman has been duped into becoming a drug mule”; the past-perfect tense uses the form “had” + “been” + the
past participle, as in “The riverside dwellers had been informed about the likely flooding before the heavy rains
came”; and the future-perfect tense uses the form “will have” + “been” + past participle of verb, as in “By this time
next year all my high school batch mates will have been awarded their college degrees.”
 So from the discussions that we have just had, it should now be clear how the perfect tense in the passive voice
differs from the perfect tense in the active voice. It’s simply that in a perfect tense sentence in the active voice, the
grammatical subject is the one doing the action of the verb; while in a perfect tense sentence in the passive voice,
the grammatical subject of the verb is typically the recipient or the object of the verb’s action. This is regardless of
whether the sentence is in the present perfect, past perfect, or future perfect tense.

Present Perfect Tense into Passive Voice

English Grammar Index

Present Perfect Tense into Passive Voice :

1. Ashok has written this letter. (active voice)

This letter has been written by Ashok. (passive voice)

2. Sita has sent a parcel. (active voice)

A parcel has been sent by Sitka.(passive voice)

3. He has scored twenty runs.(active voice)

Twenty runs have been scored by him.(passive voice)

4. The rain has ruined the crops. (active voice)

The crops have been ruined by the rain. (passive voice)

5. You have not paid the bill. (active voice)

The bill has not been paid by you. (passive voice)