{"id":2703,"date":"2017-12-05T06:34:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T06:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2017-12-05T06:34:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T06:34:25","slug":"changing-imperative-sentences-into-the-passive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/changing-imperative-sentences-into-the-passive\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Imperative Sentences Into The Passive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We will learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/passive-verb-forms\/\">passive voice <\/a>in this chapter.<\/p>\n<p>The imperative sentence in the passive voice takes the following form:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let + object + be + past participle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the active voice is in the negative, the passive voice takes the following form:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let not + object + be + past participle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Help me. (Active Voice)<br \/>\nLet me be helped. (Passive Voice)<br \/>\nDo it at once. (Active Voice)<br \/>\nLet it be done at once. (Passive Voice)<br \/>\nCarry it home. (Active Voice)<br \/>\nLet it be carried home. (Passive Voice)<br \/>\nDo not beat the dog. (Active Voice)<br \/>\nLet the dog not be beaten. OR Let not the dog be beaten. (Passive Voice)<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we want to begin the sentence with you so that the emphasis is on the person addressed. In such cases, the passive voice takes the following form:<\/p>\n<p>Help me. (Active Voice)<br \/>\nLet me be helped. (Passive Voice)<br \/>\nYou are requested to help me. (Passive Voice)<br \/>\nDon\u2019t touch it. (Active Voice)<br \/>\nLet it not be touched. (Passive Voice)<br \/>\nYou are warned not to touch it. (Passive Voice)<\/p>\n<p>The passive form has to begin with you, when the object of the verb in the active voice is not given.<\/p>\n<p>Work hard. (No object) (Active Voice)<br \/>\nYou are advised to work hard. (Passive Voice)<br \/>\nGet out. (No object) (Active Voice)<br \/>\nYou are ordered to get out. (Passive Voice)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will learn more about passive voice in this chapter. The imperative sentence in the passive voice takes the following form: Let + object + be + past participle When the active voice is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-2703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons","tag-passive-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2704,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions\/2704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}