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  Active voice  means that a sentence has a subject that acts upon its verb.  Passive voice means that a subject is a recipient of a verb’s action.  In English grammar, verbs have five properties: voice, mood, tense, person, and number; here, we are concerned with voice. The two grammatical voices are  active and passive . the difference: Active voice When the subject of a sentence performs the verb’s action, we say that the sentence is in the  active voice .  Example: Monkeys adore bananas. The sentence have a basic active voice construction: subject,  verb , and object. Passive voice: A sentence is in the  passive voice , on the other hand, when the subject is acted on by the verb. The passive voice is always constructed with a conjugated form of  to be plus the verb’s past participle.  Example: Bananas are adored by monkeys. the first pair of sentences, “Monkeys adore bananas” and “Bananas are adored by monkeys.” The active sente...

  Imperative verbs are verbs that create an imperative sentence (i.e. a sentence that gives an order or command). When reading an imperative sentence, it will always sound like the speaker is bossing someone around. Imperative verbs don’t leave room for questions or discussion, even if the sentence has a polite tone. Use the root form of the verb to create the imperative. Consider the examples below: Give  me that book! Clean  your room! Do  your homework. Take  the dog for a walk, please. Don’t touch  that! Do come to visit  us whenever you’re in town. The imperative mood in English is generally used  to give an order ,  to prompt someone to do something,  to  give a   warning  or to  give instructions . There are several distinguishable forms of the imperative in English: affirmative, negative, and exhortative, as well as the more cordial ways of expressing an order. Let’s look at the characteristics of each of thes...

  Simple Future Tense: The simple future is a verb tense that’s used to talk about things that haven’t happened yet. This year, Jen  will read   War and Peace . It  will be hard, but she’s determined to do it. Use the simple future to talk about an action or condition that will begin and end in the future. How to Form the Simple Future The formula for the simple future is  will + [root form of verb] . I  will learn  a new language. Jen  will read  that book. My brothers  will sleep  till noon if no one wakes them up. You  will see  what I mean. It doesn’t matter if the subject is singular or plural; the formula for the simple future doesn’t change. But… There is another way to show that something will happen in the future. It follows the formula  [am/is/are] + going to + [root form verb] . I  am going to learn  a new language. Jen  is going to read  that book. My brothers  are going to sleep ...