You want them to perform for you.Īctive Voice: The instructor graded the midterm exams. To keep, active and passive voice Simple present, keep, is kept, I keep the butter in the fridge. the subject of your sentence) a lot of money to act in your sentence. Side Note: Imagine that you are the director of your sentence, and you have paid your star (a.k.a. Make them the subject (star) of your sentence. The passive voice isn’t wrong, but its not always appropriate.The order of words in a sentence with active voice is subject, verb, object. In addition, the active voice stresses that the actor (or grammatical subject) precedes the verb, again, putting emphasis on the subject.
Passive Voice:The midterm exams were graded by the instructor. At its simplest the distinction between active and passive voice is. Remember, you want to be “active” not “passive” in your writing. Using the active voice in a sentence often means less words are used than in the passive voice. Instead, writers prefer the active voice because the subject of the sentence is actually doing the action (thus making the sentence more commanding and confident). Writers try to avoid the passive voice when possible because the passive voice often leads to wordier and less powerful sentences.
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