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Practical English Grammar


Active and passive voices


Voice is a verb form that indicates if the sentence’s subject performs or
receives an action.
There are two types of voice—active voice and passive voice.

➲ If the sentence’s subject performs the action, the sentence is written in
the active voice. ‘‘The pilot landed the plane’’ is written in the active
voice since the subject (pilot) performed the action (landed the plane).

➲If the sentence’s subject receives the action, the sentence is written in the
passive voice. ‘‘The plane was landed by the pilot’’ is written in the
passive voice since the subject (plane) received the pilot’s action (landed
the plane).

Note: Good writers use the active voice whenever possible. However, if you
want to emphasize a specific point, you can use the passive voice. That is why
the sentence, ‘‘An exciting program was aired by our local television station,’’
is acceptable, even though it is written in the passive voice. The writer wants
to emphasize the program, not the television station.

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Notes


Practical English Grammar - Notes
1. compound subjects part two
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2. Quotation Marks Part Three
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3. Italics Hyphens and Brackets
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4. complete and simple subjects
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5. Sound a like words Part Four
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6. the adjective clause
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7. Commas Part Two
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8. Commas Part Four
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9. compound subjects part one
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10. the indirect object
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11. irregular verbs part two
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12. what good writers do
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13. the noun adjective pronoun question
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14. Periods Question Marks and Exclamation Marks
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15. the object of the preposition
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16. types of nouns
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17. reflexive demonstrative and interrogative pronouns
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18. the adverb
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19. The nominative case
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20. Commas Part Three
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21. The Apostrophe
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22. The Colon
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23. Quotation Marks Part Two
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24. First Capitalization List
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25. subject verb agreement situations
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26. subject and verb agreement
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27. the correlative conjunction
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28. the subordinating conjunction
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29. the interjection
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30. Confusing usage words part two
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31. Confusing usage words part five
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32. Sound a like words Part Two
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33. Quotation Marks Part One
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34. Second Capitalization List
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35. indefinite pronouns
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36. introducing phrases
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37. the verb phrase
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38. the prepositional phrase
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39. the adjective phrase
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40. the appositive
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41. the participle and participial phrase
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42. the infinitive and infinitive phrase
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43. the noun clause
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44. Confusing usage words part one
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45. Confusing usage words part three
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46. Confusing usage words part four
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47. Confusing usage words part six
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48. Confusing usage words part seven
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49. Active and passive voices
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50. Commas Part One
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