This handout is also available for download in PDF format. We refer to a sentence as being in the "active voice" when the subject is performing the action of the sentence (the verb). A sentence is in ...

Use the passive voice when you don’t know who is doing an action, or to emphasise that an action is being done to something or someone, rather than focusing on who or what is doing the action. For ...

Direction (1 – 20): In the following twenty questions, a sentence has been given in Active/ Passive Voice. Out of the tour alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence ...

The passive voice: despised by teachers, maligned by editors, and misunderstood by almost everyone. For over a century, this grammatical construction has been the bogeyman of English writing, blamed ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Both sentence pairs make sense. Both describe the same facts. However, in each pair one sentence uses the active voice ...