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Used with main verbs to express ability, probability, obligation, advice etc. The modal verbs consist of will, would, can, could, shall, should, may, might, must which are

Look for the word “ by”, if present it is passive voice. Question will be : Who is eating the apple? How to identify the active / passive voice?Īsk who/what performed the action(verb)? - if the ‘ who or what is at the beginning of the sentence, the sentence is active voice. letter receives the action denoted by the write (verb). It is used if we are more interested in the job than the actors who work. In the end of the clause or sentence “by” is prefixed to know the actor performing the job.ģ. It is used if it doesn‘t need to know or we don‘t know the actor performing the job.Ģ. The passive voice is used in writing facts, truth, lab or technical reports in which the actor is not important or unknown, but the action happening on the object is very important. In passive voice, the actor of the of the verb (action) is either understood at the end of the sentence or maybe not told.

who/what is receiving the action and not on who/what is performing the action. In Passive voice the sentence focus on object i.e. John ( subject) performs the action denoted by the verb ( write). Sentences are short and easily understandable. Subject can be easily identified by asking ‘who’ or ‘what’ to the verb.ģ. Active voice is used in a clause whose subject expresses the agent of the main verb.Ģ. With help of active voice more powerful sentences can be build than passive voice. In other words, the subject performs the action denoted by the verb. With the active voice, you learn ‘who’ or ‘what’ is responsible for the action at the beginning of the sentence. Active VoiceĪctive voice is used to indicate the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb. One and the same idea can often be expressed in two different ways, by means of an active, and by means of a passive construction. “A Grammar of Contemporary English” defines Voice as “voice is a grammatical category which makes it possible to view the action of a sentence in two ways, without change in the facts reported”.