Active and Passive Voice

ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE


  1. DEFINITION
a.       Active Voice
In active sentences, the thing doing the action is the subject of the sentence and the thing receiving the action is the object. Most sentences are active.

b.      Passive Voice
In passive sentences, the thing receiving the action is the subject of the sentence and the thing doing the action is optionally included near the end of the sentence.

            Why should you use the passive voice ?
·         you don't want to say who or what did the action
·         you don't know who did the action
·         the object is the most important or the most interesting part of the sentence
  1. FORMULA
a.       Active Voice
[Thing doing action] + [verb] + [thing receiving action]

S + V + O

b.      Passive Voice
[Thing receiving action] + [be] + [past participle of verb] + [by] + [thing doing action]

S + BE + past participle of verb + BY + O
  1. EXAMPLE
a.       A.V  :Andine waters this plant every two days
P. V : This plant is watered by her every two days

b.      A.V  : She watered this plant this morning
P. V : This plant was watered by her this morning

c.       A.V  : She has watered this plant for 10 minutes
P. V : This plant has been watered by her for 10 minutes

  1. 16 TENSES OF ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE






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