Active and Passive Voice Verb Tense Transformations
Tense Comparison Table
| Tense | Active Sentence Example | Passive Sentence Example |
|---|---|---|
| Present | I write a letter. | The letter is written. |
| Present Continuous | I’m writing a letter. | The letter is being written. |
| Past | I wrote a letter. | The letter was written. |
| Past Continuous | I was writing a letter. | The letter was being written. |
| Present Perfect | I’ve written a letter. | The letter has been written. |
| Past Perfect | I had written a letter. | The letter had been written. |
Common Irregular Verb Forms (Base, Past Simple, Past Participle)
This list provides essential irregular verb forms for accurate sentence construction:
- Be: was/were, been, being / to be
- Bend: bent, bent
- Bite: bit, bitten
- Blow: blew, blown
- Break: broke, broken
- Bring: brought, brought
- Build: built, built
- Buy: bought, bought
- Catch: caught, caught
- Dig: dug, dug
- Draw: drew, drawn
- Dream: dreamt/dreamed, dreamt/dreamed
- Feed: fed, fed
- Feel: felt, felt
- Fight: fought, fought
- Find: found, found
- Fly: flew, flown
- Freeze: froze, frozen
- Get: got, gotten (or got)
- Grow: grew, grown
- Hang: hung, hung (for suspending objects)
- Hear: heard, heard
- Hide: hid, hidden
- Hit: hit, hit
- Hold: held, held
- Hurt: hurt, hurt
- Keep: kept, kept
- Know: knew, known
- Lay: laid, laid
- Lead: led, led
- Learn: learnt/learned, learnt/learned
- Leave: left, left
- Lend: lent, lent
- Let: let, let
- Lie (recline): lay, lain
- Light: lit, lit
- Lose: lost, lost
- Make: made, made
- Mean: meant, meant
- Meet: met, met
- Melt: melted, melted/molten
- Mistake: mistook, mistaken
- Oversee: oversaw, overseen
- Pay: paid, paid
- Put: put, put
- Read: read, read (pronounced differently)
- Ride: rode, ridden
- Ring: rang, rung
- Rise: rose, risen
- Run: ran, run
- Say: said, said
- See: saw, seen
- Seek: sought, sought
- Sell: sold, sold
- Send: sent, sent
- Set: set, set
- Shake: shook, shaken
- Shine: shone/shined, shone/shined
- Shoot: shot, shot
- Show: showed, shown
- Shut: shut, shut
- Sing: sang, sung
- Sink: sank, sunk
- Sit: sat, sat
- Sleep: slept, slept
- Slide: slid, slidden/slid
- Smell: smelt/smelled, smelt/smelled
- Speak: spoke, spoken
- Speed: sped, sped
- Spell: spelled/spelt, spelled/spelt
- Spend: spent, spent
- Split: split, split
- Spoil: spoilt/spoiled, spoilt/spoiled
- Spread: spread, spread
- Spring: sprang, sprung
- Stand: stood, stood
- Steal: stole, stolen
- Stick: stuck, stuck
- Sting: stung, stung
- Stink: stank/stunk, stunk
- Strike: struck, stricken
- Swear: swore, sworn
- Sweat: sweat/sweated, sweat/sweated
- Sweep: swept, swept
- Swim: swam, swum
- Take: took, taken