Learn about using the active and passive voices in this episode of 6 Minute Grammar.

You can differentiate active and passive voice by the subject's role and the way the verb looks. Consider these two questions: 1. Who or what is actually doing the action? In active voice, the subject ...

The online column titled, guide to grammar.org. provides these examples: Active: “The executive committee (do-ers) approved the new policy.” (receiver) Passive: “The new policy (receiver) was approved ...

But in the passive voice the action is performed 'on' the subject. So we can say the subject is 'acted on.' "The cake was eaten by the boy." The cake is the subject and it is acted upon.

In English, where the active voice would be A verbs B, for the passive you use a form of the verb be (in whatever tense) followed by the past participle of the original verb: B is verbed (by A), B ...

Passive voice means that the object of a transitive verb is made the grammatical subject of the clause. To see what that means, let’s start with an active-voice sentence: Katie wrecked the car.

How to Set Up Active & Passive Voice in Microsoft Word 2010. Microsoft Word 2010 can help punch up your document's prose by alerting you when you use passive voice in a sentence.

Image: Swellphotography/Adobe Stock You probably learned about passive and active voice during grade school grammar as I did. In grammatical terms, active voice has an explicit subject, while the ...

Understanding the difference between active and passive voice sheds light on the Second Amendment. With active voice, a subject acts, and this action occasionally affects an object.

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