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Active and Passive Voice


ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE

Transitive verb has two voice (grammatical variety) active and passive.
1.)    Active Voice
People, animals or objects indicated by the subject is said to do something on something else.
Example:   Herlyn killed a chicken.

2.)    Passive Voice
People, animals or objects indicated by the subject is said to suffer from something to something else.
Example:  A chicken was killed by Herlyn.
The pattern for the passive voice:
TO BE + PAST PARTICIPLE

a.)    intransitive verb is not used in the passive voice, except when the verb is used   
Cognate object in the active form:

- She sing a fine song. (Active)
- A fine song was sung by her sing. (Passive)

b.) If the sentence was changed from active to passive form, the object to be the subject of active verbs to passive verbs.
      The object to active verb
       - Linda can make tarts.
 
Subject to the passive verb
      - Tarts can be made by Linda.

c) Retained objects (objects that still used / maintained in the passive)
Two objects in the active sentence, when converted into the passive voice, there is still an object is maintained, this object is called Retained object.

1. Indirect object of the verb is active: for example:
          Active: We gave him a prize    
          Passive: A prize was given him by us.

2. Direct objects of active verbs such as:
         We gave him a prize                 
         He was given a prize by us


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