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Active & Passive Voice:

Compare the following two sentences.

1)     The Jury finds the defender guilty.

2)     The defender was found guilty by the Jury.

It is seen that both the sentences express the same meaning, but in the first sentence, the form of the verb shows that the person denoted by the subject (Jury) does something. The verb finds is said to be in the Active Voice.

Whereas in the second sentence, the form of Verb shows that something has been done to the person denoted by the subject (defender). The verb found is said to be in the Passive Voice.

Participle:

Dissect the following sentence:

Seeing the ghost, the girl screamed out loud.

The word seeing works as an Adjective and qualifies the noun girl.

The word seeing, therefore does both the work of acting as an Verb as well as Adjective, and is called a Participle.

Past Participle is simply a participle that denotes a completed action or state of the thing spoken of, i.e., joked, damned, blinded, deceived, driven, etc.

The Passive Voice is formed with the suitable tense of the verb followed by the Past Participle as shown in this table.

Tense + base	Active Voice	Passive Voice
Simple Present
	take	am taken
	takes	is taken
		are taken
Present Continuous
	am taking	am being taken
	is taking	is being taken
	are taking	are being taken
Present Perfect
	has taken	has been taken
	have taken	have been taken
Simple Past
	took	was taken
		were taken
Past Continuous
	was taking	was being taken
	were taking	were being taken
Past Perfect
	had taken	had been taken
Simple Future
	will take	will be taken
	shall take	shall be taken
	can take	can be taken
	may take	may be taken
	must take	must be taken