How to transform an active prayer into a passive one?

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Note the following prayers:

(1) He built that house.

(2) That house was built by him.

It is possible to notice that these two clauses have different structures. Let's look at them in detail.

In (1), it is clear that the direct transitive verb"built" is in active voice and has a direct object "that house", that is, the verbal process is seen as an action, an activity that originates in the syntactic subject "He".

In (2), the verbal construction changes in relation to the syntactic subject, that is, the subject becomes the patient of the process expressed by the verb and undergoes the verbal action, becoming passive agent.

This change process is known as transformation from active to passive prayer and it has some specificities that we will analyze below.

A sentence that has a direct transitive verb and therefore a direct object can be transformed into a passive sentence by following the steps below:

to the direct object becomes subject:

prayer in active voice

Subject

direct transitive verb

Direct object

He

built

that house.

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Transforming:

prayer in passive voice

Subject

Verb in passive analytic voice

That house

Was built

by him.


b) The verb changes to the form passive analytic the same time and mode:

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prayer in active voice

Subject

direct transitive verb

Direct object

He

built

that house.


Transforming:

prayer in passive voice

Subject

Verb in passive analytic voice

That house

Was built

by him.


c) The subject becomes an agent of the passive:

prayer in active voice

Subject

direct transitive verb

Direct object

He

built

that house.


Transforming:

prayer in passive voice

Subject

Verb in passive analytic voice

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That house

Was built

by him.

Thus, it is possible to observe that the prayer in the passive voice is composed of:

Subject + verb in the analytic passive voice + agent in the passive

See some more examples of this transformation:

prayer in active voice

prayer in passive voice

The teacher read the notes.

The notes were read by the teacher.

The father bought the gifts.

The gifts were purchased by the father.

The man mastered the horse.

The horse was dominated by man.

By Mariana Rigonatto
Graduated in Letters

Would you like to reference this text in a school or academic work? Look:

RIGONATTO, Mariana. "How to transform a prayer in an active voice into a passive one?"; Brazil School. Available in: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/gramatica/como-transformar-uma-oracao-na-voz-ativa-passiva.htm. Accessed on June 27, 2021.

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