NOUN
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the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb
`The ball was thrown by the boy' uses the passive voice
`The ball was thrown' is an abbreviated passive
How To Use passive voice In A Sentence
- I believe that passive voice has its place when the focus of the passage is the Object of any particular sentence. Grammar Rant
- I learned the distinction between the active and passive voice as early as fifth grade.
- No, you would have to be careful not to put it in a passive voice.
- Using the passive voice is always very helpful.
- Oh, and while Clinton might have equivocated in the past voice now and then, Ronald Reagan gave the most famous example of Presidential passive voice in saying saying “mistakes were made” (about Iran-contra). The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs”
- He also advises that one should use the active instead of the passive voice and gerunds instead of noun constructions.
- Wilson never called a halt to it, but there's a common practice of whenever anything bad is mentioned, it's put in the passive voice as if nobody did it.
- The passive voice gives a sense of detached and objective authority that, in contrast to the imperative mode, is expressive of neutrality.
- The Conjugation of an active verb, is styled the _active voice_; and that of a passive verb, the _passive voice_. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
- Eventually, I rejected my advisor's advice to write in the passive voice; it surely sounded more scientific, but was far duller.
