Question

What is the difference between active and passive voices?

Answer 1

The Active Voice


In a sentence with active voice, the subject, the noun that performs an action, comes before the verb. The object, the noun that receives that action of the verb, comes after the verb. For example, the subject in the sentence “The bear ate the fish” is “bear” because the bear is performing the action - - it is “eating.” The fish, because it is receiving the action, or being eaten, is the object. The formula for an active sentence is as follows: S+V+O. An active sentence does not require an object, though. “The bear ate” is also active, and follows the formula S+V.


The Passive Voice


The passive voice follows a reverse pattern, O+V+S, although it does not require a subject and can form the pattern O+V. In a passive sentence, the object precedes the verb and the subject follows the verb. To create such a sentence construction, a writer has to add the verb “to be” and the preposition “by,” if the sentence includes an object. For instance, “The fish was eaten by the bear” is passive because the object, “fish” comes first, then the verb “was eaten” and finally the subject, “bear.” Even though bear comes last in this sentence, because it is performing the eating, it is still the subject of the verb. The fish never does anything; it is only passively performed upon.

Answer 2

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