Active Voice: People are sending hundreds of e-mails at this very moment
Passive Voice
Examples could include a scientific report, a company handbook or a contract
The sheriff was shot
, the subject of the sentence is acting out the verb), it is said to be in active voice
The active voice is more concise
The house was painted last week
, was, had been) followed by another verb in its past participle form (e
Look at these examples to see how the passive voice is used
These are some example of sentences with the simple
It gives examples of both, and shows how to turn a passive sentence into an active one
Voice is the quality of a verb that indicates whether its subject acts (active voice) or is acted upon (passive voice)
In all of those sentences, the subject is the receiver of the action
(“truncated” passive voice, which leaves it to the reader to figure out who hit the ball) Passive voice sentences like That pizza was eaten by Sam are in the past tense