What Is Active Voice?
I'll start with active voice because it's simpler. In an active sentence, the subject
is doing the action. A straightforward example is the sentence "Steve
loves Amy." Steve is the subject, and he is doing the action: he loves
Amy, the object of the sentence.
Another example is the title of the Marvin Gaye song "I Heard It
through the Grapevine.” "I" is the subject, the one who is doing the
action. "I" is hearing "it," the object of the sentence.
What Is Passive Voice?
In passive voice, the target of the action gets promoted to the
subject position. Instead of saying, "Steve loves Amy," I would say,
"Amy is loved by Steve." The subject of the sentence becomes Amy, but
she isn't doing anything. Rather, she is just the recip
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What Is Active Voice?
I'll start with active voice because it's simpler. In an active sentence, the subject
is doing the action. A straightforward example is the sentence "Steve
loves Amy." Steve is the subject, and he is doing the action: he loves
Amy, the object of the sentence.
Another example is the title of the Marvin Gaye song "I Heard It
through the Grapevine.” "I" is the subject, the one who is doing the
action. "I" is hearing "it," the object of the sentence.
What Is Passive Voice?
In passive voice, the target of the action gets promoted to the
subject position. Instead of saying, "Steve loves Amy," I would say,
"Amy is loved by Steve." The subject of the sentence becomes Amy, but
she isn't doing anything. Rather, she is just the recip
...
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