I in passive voice

20 sentences in passive voice from newspaper 1 passive voice examples 2 active and passive voice in newspaper articles 3 passive voice news headlines exercises 4 What is the passive voice? In general, the active voice makes your writing stronger, more direct, and, you guessed it, more active. The subject is something, or it does the action of the verb in the sentence. With the passive voice, the subject is acted upon by some other performer of the verb. (In case you weren’t paying attention, the. 5 The first one is already in the passive voice (subject + be + past participle). The second one does not have "be" in it, so it's just a noun phrase (noun + past participle). It can be changed into the passive voice: The mission is accomplished. The active voice would be something like: I grant you permission and I accomplished the mission. 6 The passive voice is used when we want to emphasize the action (the verb) and the object of a sentence rather than subject. This means that the subject is either less important than the action itself or that we don’t know who or what the subject is. 7 3. Myth: The passive voice always avoids the first person; if something is in first person (“I” or “we”) it’s also in the active voice. On the contrary, you can very easily use the passive voice in the first person. Here’s an example: “I was hit by the dodgeball.” 4. Myth: You should never use the passive voice. 8 This lesson will go over passive voice, which is often used in Norwegian. 9 We are in the active voice, when the subject is the doer of the action.. 10 The term "passive voice" describes a verb whose action is done to the subject not by the subject. For example: The sheriff was shot. (This is an example of the passive voice. The subject of the verb is "the sheriff." The action of the verb ("to shoot") is done to the subject.) Now, look at this example: He shot the sheriff. 11 In the passive, the person or thing that the action was done to becomes the topic or theme. We can leave out the ‘doer’ or agent, or we can place the ‘doer’ in a prepositional phrase (by + ‘doer’): These houses were designed in the s. (passive without agent) These houses were designed in the s by Edward Barnes. (passive + by + agent). 12