ACTIVE VOICE & PASSIVE VOICE

FORM OF VERB

There are two special forms for verb called voice:

1.      Active Voice

2.      Passive Voice

The Active Voice is the ‘Normal” voice. This is the voice that we used most of the time. You are probably already familiar with the active voice, the object receives the action of the verb

EXAMPLE:

Active Voice	Subject	Verb	Object
	Cats	eat	fish

                                  

The Passive Voice is usual. In the passive voice, the subject receives the action of the verb.

Passive Voice	Subeject	Verb	Object
	Fish	Are eaten	By Cats

The Object of the active verb becomes the subject of the passive voice.

EXAMPLE:

	Subject	Verb	Object
Active	Everybody	Drinks	Water
Passive	Water	Is drunk	By everybody