Passive voice - Present Continuous Tense

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  • She is judging the act. (active voice)

Subject (doer of the action) = she
Verb phrase = is judging
Object (receiver of the action) = the act

  • The act is being judged (by her). (Passive voice)

Object (new subject) = the act (receiver of the action)
Verb phrase = is being judged
Doer = her

Both sentences are in the Present Continuous tense but focus on different things. The sentence in the active voice focuses on the person performing the action (the subject), and the sentence in the passive voice focuses on the receiver of the action (the object of the verb).

  • Active voice: Ashish is teaching English at this university.

  • Passive voice: English is being taught by Ashish at this university.

  • Active voice: They are making a movie about me.

  • Passive voice: A movie about me is being made (by them).

  • Active voice: A robot is serving food in this hotel.

  • Passive voice: Food is being served by a robot in this hotel.

  • Active voice: They are taking interviews for different posts.

  • Passive voice: Interviews are being taken for different posts (by them).

  • Active voice: The police are interrogating him right now.

  • Passive voice: He is being interrogated (by the police right now).

  • Active voice: Everybody is watching the final match.

  • Passive voice: The final match is being watched by everyone.

  • Active voice: Who is helping you with your project?

  • Passive voice: Who are you being helped by in this project?

  • Active voice: Ron is not training the kids.

  • Passive voice: The kids are not being trained (by Ron).

  • Active voice: Are they playing cricket right now?

  • Passive voice: Is cricket being played by them right now?

  • Active voice: Why is he not helping us?

  • Passive voice: Why are we not being helped by him?

Positive :The laptop is being repaired.

Question : Is the laptop being repaired ?

Negative : The laptop is not being repaired.

Negative Question : Isn’t the laptop being repaired ?


Positive : We are being checked at the main gate.

Question : Are you being checked at the main gate ?

Negative :We are not being checked at the main gate.

Negative Question : Aren’t you being checked at the main gate ?

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