Question

Can anyone help me understand the difference between passive voice and active voice? How will I identify such a sentence from a given set of options?

Answer 1

@Miracrown

Answer 2

@Whitemonsterbunny17

Answer 3

"In an active sentence, the subject is doing the action. For example, "Steve loves Amy." "
"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.""

Here's another example of active voice...
The dog chased the boy.
Dog is the subject here, as it is doing the action.
Versus passive voice...
Research will be presented by Jill later today.

A good technique is mentally draw arrows from the subject to the verb. For example...(I'll write this on the board...)

Answer 4

Dog...chased.
Versus...
Versus Jill (will present) research.
In this sentence here, the subject follows the verb and object.

Answer 5

Dog chased boy and Jill will present the research are both active voice?

Answer 6

Dog chased is active because dog is doing the action. In the second sentence (and I should have clarified this) Jill, the subject, is receiving the action that research will be presented.

Answer 7

So the second one is passive.
Let's look at another example...the same sentence written both ways...

Answer 8

Active voice: The man must have eaten five hamburgers.
Passive voice: Five hamburgers must have been eaten by the man.

Here's the difference... In the first sentence "The man...eats." Man is the subject and performs the action, eats. In the second sentence, the "action" is first (Five hamburgers...have been eaten), and "man" receives the action.

Answer 9

In active voice, the subject is active. In passive voice, the subject is not active, but is, instead, being acted upon by the verb (passive).

Answer 10

Can I say that in active voice subject does action to the object and in passive voice object does action to subject?

Answer 11

Yes, that would be a good way to look at it.

Answer 12

Thanks a lot for the help!! :D :)

Answer 13

its fine man! :P