PASSIVE AND ACTIVE VOICE

Presented By: Aesha Jhude C. DiezPresented To: Teacher Cris

Verbs are also said to be either active or passive in voice.

What is an Active Voice?

In the active voice, the subject and verb relationship is straightforward: the subject is a be-er or a do-er and the verb moves the sentence along.

Active voice is a grammatical voice common in many of the world's languages. It is the unmarked voice for clauses featuring a transitive verb in nominative–accusative languages.

What is Passive Voice?

The passive voice is less usual than the active voice. While the Passive Voice is the “normal”. Computerized grammar checkers can pick out a passive voice construction from miles away and ask you to revise it to a more active construction,

The passive voice is especially helpful (and even regarded as mandatory) in scientific or technical writing or lab reports, where the actor is not really important but the process or principle being described is of ultimate importance. Instead of writing "I poured 20 cc of acid into the beaker," we would write "Twenty cc of acid is/was poured into the beaker." The passive voice is also useful when describing, say, a mechanical process in which the details of process are much more important than anyone's taking responsibility for the action: "The first coat of primer paint is applied immediately after the acid rinse."

Passive voice is used when the focus is on the action. It is not important or not known, however, who or what is performing the action.

Form of passiveSubject + finite form of to be + Past Participle (3rd

column of irregular verbs) Example: A letter was written. When rewriting active sentences in passive

voice, note the following: the object of the active sentence becomes the

subject of the passive sentence the finite form of the verb is changed (to be +

past participle) the subject of the active sentence becomes the

object of the passive sentence (or is dropped)

EXAMPLES OF PASSIVE AND ACIVE VOICE

Resources http://

grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAr/passive.htm

https://webapps.towson.edu/ows/activepass.htm