Question

Change "He keeps me waiting" to passive voice?

Answer 1

Hint: The subject of an active voice phrase is someone who does something with the verb. A verb's activity in the passive voice helps the subject. In the passive voice, the verb operates on the subject.

Complete answer:
The active voice is a grammatical notion that defines sentences in which the verb's activity is actively performed by the subject of the sentence.
In grammar, voice refers to the relationship between a phrase's action and the person (or persons) who execute (or do not perform) that action.

In active voice, the subject of the phrase is the recipient of the verb's action, whereas in passive voice, the subject is the recipient of the verb's action. Consider the following scenario:

The man took the automobile. (active voice)
The automobile was taken by the man. (Passive voice)

When a verb acts on the subject of a sentence, it is said to be in the passive voice. In "The cake was eaten by me," the cake (the subject) receives the verb's action and is eaten in the passive voice.

To transition to the passive voice, we must first convert the subject (He) to an object of the sentence (place it at the end and change the word from He to Him), then shift the object (Me) to the subject (so putting it at the front of the sentence and changing Me to I), finally, we must change the verb to indicate that an action is being conducted against the subject (vs what happens in an active voice sentence where the subject does something). Use a version of the verb "to be" to do this.

Thus, in a passive voice the sentence becomes: I am kept waiting by him.

Note: Some rules of conversion:
- The active voice's subject becomes the passive voice's object, and the active voice's object becomes the passive voice's subject.
- In the passive voice, put ‘by' in front of the subject.
- In the passive voice, use the third form of the verb + is/ am/ are/ was/ were/ been/ being