FUTURE TENSE
Simple future tense
Question Word beginning
Active Voice: QW. + will/shall + S + V + O?
Eg: When will Teena call us?
Passive Voice : QW. + will/ shall + O + be + V3 + by + S?
Eg: When shall we be called by Teena ?
Auxiliary beginning
Active Voice : Will/shall + S + V + O ?
Eg: Shall we meet them today ?
Passive Voice: will/shall + O + be + V3 + by + S ?
Eg: Will they be met today by us ?
Future continuous tense
Question Word beginning
Active Voice: QW. + will/shall + S + be + V+ing + O ?
Eg: When will he be writing the novel?
Passive Voice: QW. + will/shall + O + be + being + V3 + by + S ?
Eg: When will the novel be being written by him ?
Auxiliary beginning
Active Voice : will/shall + S + be + V + ing + O ?
Eg: Shall we be discussing the matters ?
Passive Voice: will/shall + O + be + being + V3 + by + S ?
Eg: Will the matters be being discussed by us?
Passive Voices of ‘Future perfect’ and ‘Future perfect continuous’ tenses are not usually used.
Points to remember.
Interrogative sentences are grouped into ‘Question word ( QW.) beginning’ and ‘Auxiliary (Aux ) beginning’. When the ‘QW’ is avoided, its pattern becomes that of ‘Auxiliary beginning Interrogative sentence’, as we see in the above patterns in different tenses.
Eg: Why do you make it ?
When the question word ‘why’ is avoided, the sentence becomes ‘an auxiliary beginning interrogative sentence’ as,
Do you make it ?
The question word ‘Who’ stands for the ‘subject’ of an interrogative sentence. So the general pattern of the voices of the sentence are as shown below.
Active Voice: Who + Aux+V + O ?
Eg: Who wrote the letter ?
While being changed into Passive Voice, the sentence starts with the question word ‘ By whom’ as shown in the pattern below.
Passive Voice: By whom + Aux + O + V3 ?
Eg: By whom was the letter written?
The question word ‘What/ (Which + noun)’ stands for the ‘object’ of an interrogative sentence. The general pattern of the voices of the sentence are as shown below,
Active Voice: What/ (Which + noun) + Aux + S + V?
Eg: What did he say ?
Which shirt did Tom give ?
Passive Voice: What/ (Which + noun) + Aux + V3 + by + S ?
Eg: What was said by him ?
Which shirt was given by Tom ?
Now, let’s go to the Practical Study in the topic Voices in interrogative sentences.
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