Writing in the active voice makes the meaning clear while keeping sentences from becoming complicated and wordy. Sentences using passive voice are not necessarily wrong, just less effective than ...

Active and Passive Voice This handout is also available for download in PDF format. We refer to a sentence as being in the "active voice" when the subject is performing the action of the sentence (the ...

A passive is where we take the object on an active sentence and make it the subject of a new sentence. We usually form it by using the verb 'be' and the past participle.