Question

Is the verb in the sentence in the active voice or the passive voice?

Marcus threw the baseball to his teammate.

A.
active voice

B.
passive voice

Answer 1

@hartnn

Answer 2

Active voice.
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I \(\normalsize\color{royalblue}{ \rm ate }\) the cake.
I \(\normalsize\color{royalblue}{ \rm threw }\) the ball.


Passive voice:
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The cake was \(\normalsize\color{royalblue}{ \rm eaten }\).
The ball was \(\normalsize\color{royalblue}{ \rm thrown }\).

Answer 3

Active voice verbs, is when there is a subject to a verb (a person performing this verb/action).

Answer 4

Passive voice verbs, will not have a subject to them