2024年12月19日 · Learn when to use passive voice and when to avoid it with these guidelines and examples. Explore active vs. passive voice and how to identify passive voice.

When the object is affected by the action, we use passive voice. A verb is in the passive voice when its form shows that something is done to the person or thing denoted by the subject. The …

In the passive voice example of the modal verb, no single person is addressed. Therefore, the computer can be used by anyone. This handout explains and describes the sequence of verb …

The passive writing voice occurs when something that is ordinarily “done by” the subject of a sentence is “done by” the object of a sentence. In the passive writing voice, whatever is doing …

Passive verbs receive the action of the verb. See examples and learn about diagramming sentences that are written in the passive voice.

The term 'passive voice' describes a verb whose action is performed on the subject not by the subject. Passive voice is the opposite of active voice. For example, 'The sheriff was shot' is an …

This handout will help you understand what passive voice is, why many instructors frown upon it, and how you can revise to achieve greater clarity.

We make the passive by putting the verb 'to be' into whatever tense we need and then adding the past participle. For regular verbs, we make the past participle by adding 'ed' to the infinitive. So …

We use passive forms of tenses in the same way as we use their active equivalents. For example, we use the present simple in the passive to talk about general or permanent states, or general …

2025年3月26日 · We often use the passive: when we prefer not to mention who or what does the action (for example, it's not known, it's obvious or we don't want to say) so that we can start a …