This handout is also available for download in PDF format. We refer to a sentence as being in the "active voice" when the subject is performing the action of the sentence (the verb). A sentence is in ...

In passive voice, the subject of the sentence is not the one doing the action: it will receive the action instead. The one doing the action may appear in a prepositional phrase or not appear in the ...

Finally, it will suggest several ways that teachers may deal with passive voice constructions in their teaching. The term “voice,” as a linguistic category, indicates the relationship between the ...

When the subject of a sentence isn't doing something, the verb is passive. On the other hand, a sentence is active when the subject performs the verb (action). For example, in this sentence the ...

Teaching students to write in the active voice will significantly strengthen their essays because sentences written in the active voice often have much more impact than those written in the passive ...

In English there are two voices: active and passive. The passive voice is the marked voice: [+Passive], and the active voice is the unmarked or default voice: [-Passive]. Virtually every verb may ...

When the subject of a sentence isn't doing something, the verb is passive. On the other hand, a sentence is active when the subject performs the verb (action). For example, in this sentence the ...