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Active And Passive Voice

When there is a choice between active and passive voice,the active always preferred. As a passive person is disliked so how a passive voice be chosen.You might have been taught Active and passive voice at schools number of times.However,if you have ever confusion to right actively or passively,we are always here to change the disturbing passive .

Active And Passive Voice

What are Active and Passive Voice in Writing?

When the money of your roommate has lost and he searches it with a noice that where should his money be gone when you and he are the only persons in the room so you preferred that he should ask directly to you.Such a friend is too passive and aggressive and his deed introduce what he want to say.

So that is the case with the English passive voice sentences.These are always a cause of inconvenience.Passive voice performs the indirect actions while active voice presents it directly.

Let’s get the point with an example:

'The thief was caught by the police.'

This example may help you to understand the content.

What is the action in the sentence?

The action here is 'was caught', or the verb to catch. Next see who is performing the action?

Who was catching in this sentence? It's the police.'

Then, determine on what the action is performed.In this case, who was caught? 'The thief.' After determining the key facts you can convert this passive sentence into active.

So, it would be “The police caught the thief.”

The sentence is now clearly direct.

Why Active, Not Passive?

At couple of times you have told at schools that a passive voice is unsuitable to be used then and active voice.

However, this is not always true. We prefer it for more clarity. In contrast , many people used to write passively, as it feels more soothing to them. For example we can imagine, a team of competent scholars pronounce a dry statement:

'A large planet moving in the space has been located by the scientific group.'

The sentence contains some important information, but this sentence is passive, and it also lacks immediacy. So how do we fix this?

Identifying and Correcting Passive Voice

Two elements are present in passive sentences:

A form of the verb 'to be' (those are: is, are, am, was, were, has been, have been, had been, will be, will have been and being) + a past participle, which is a verb in the past tense.

The planet example shows, the 'to be' verb is 'has been' and the past participle is 'located.' The direct object that has been found is the 'planet.' Hence, the sentence is in passive voice.

The preposition 'by' is another simpler hint in this sentence that it's in passive voice. If you see 'by', there is a deep chance that the sentence is in passive voice.

However, 'A large planet moving in the space has been located by the scientific group’ could be written as also,

'A large planet moving in the space has been located,' and it would still be a passive sentence even it is without preposition. So, it's a good hint but it's not the essential element to evaluate if a sentence is in the passive voice.

To avoid calamity change the voice of sentence, 'The scientific group located the large planet moving in the space.'

First-Person Sentences

It's said that the first person sentences ‘I or we’, can't be passive. So for instance I'm searching it,

Here,it can't be unclear who's performing the action, right?

For instance, 'I was beached on the sea by the storm' is passive. You're not beaching yourself on the sea. The storm is performing the action of beaching you. Let make it active: 'The storm beached me on the sea.'