The passive voice and the active voice

Active voice means that a sentence has a subject that acts upon its verb. Passive voicemeans 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 beplus 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 sentence consists of monkeys (subject) + adore (verb) + bananas (object).

The passive sentence consists of bananas (object) + are adored (a form of to be plus the past participle adored) + by (preposition) + monkeys (subject).

When to use active and passive voice?

Using the active voice conveys a strong, clear tone, and the passive voice is subtler and weaker

Passive Voice Structure Examples

Here are examples of some of the most common tenses used in the passive voice:

Active Voice	Passive Voice	Verb Tense
They make Fords in Cologne.	Fords are made in Cologne.	Present Simple
Susan is cooking dinner.	Dinner is being cooked by Susan	Present Continuous
James Joyce wrote "Dubliners".	"Dubliners" was written by James Joyce.	Past Simple
They were painting the house when I arrived.	The house was being painted when I arrived.	Past Continuous
They have produced over 20 models in the past two years.	Over 20 models have been produced in the past two years.	Present Perfect
They are going to build a new factory in Portland.	A new factory is going to be built in Portland.	Future Intention with Going to
I will finish it tomorrow.	It will be finished tomorrow.	Future Simple

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