Because you have to do this mental work to figure out who is the person, or the organization, or the government agency who is doing the action. That makes it much more difficult to read and to process especially if you're hearing it. You have the object coming first and you have to wait to figure out who the subject is, who's doing the action. Now, notice that the passive voice is flipped around from the natural order. So in this case with might be, blood levels were measured by the county health department. You can convey the same information in a less clear way if you happen to use passive voice, and passive voice sentences reverse that, it flips it around, so that the subject of the sentence, the first part of the sentence that we see or hear is in fact not the actor but the object of the action. Who's measuring blood levels? The county health department is. So for example, the county health department measured blood levels. the actor and the sentence be the same thing. So, what do I mean by that? So, active voice sentences are sentences that have the subject of the sentence i.e. Specifically using the active voice, instead of passive voice when you're writing. So now, we're going to talk about ways to make your writing or you're speaking clearer, sentence by sentence. The change of the verb forms according to the tenses can prove to be a challenge but this is the most important part to concentrate on for the learners when it comes to mastering these two voices.Foundational Skills for Communicating About Health Course Transcript Verb Change in Active and Passive Sentences Active is the most commonly used form of sentence in the English language but without the right mix of the passive sentence, any spoken or written piece will fail to stay as dynamic to the people at the receiving end. They stand for the two polar opposite outlooks on the same incident. The sense and focus of passive sentences are the opposite of active ones. Passive sentences are often used in English to overcome the monotonous use of regular sentence formation in speech and writing. Passive voice is precisely used to express the other side of the story. The Objects of the sentences above are being affected by the subject or the one taking the actions. All the latest movies are watched by me.The book I was looking for was given to me by Rina.Something will be found by him in time.Passive Sentence Structure: Object + Verb + Preposition + Subject The events in the passive sentences are described from the object’s side. Passive Voices are the types of sentences where the object of the sentence comes into focus and what is being done to it (by the subject) is the agenda. Without the reference to the Passive Voice, it is rather hard to understand the Active Voice properly.
This is how Sentences are naturally constructed in the English language. They use verbs as per the respective tenses of the sentences. Subjects are the ones in focus in the sentences in the Active Voice above. Rina gave me the book I was looking for.The subject of the sentence is the performer of the task in the Active Voices.Īctive Sentence Structure: Subject + Verb + Object Active Voices are sentences where the Action Verbs act directly for the Nouns / Pronouns, which means the Subjects of the sentence perform these actions directly.
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