ryan serodja: April 2012

The sentence is active (active voice) is a sentence where the subject of his work, in contrast, a passive sentence (passive voice) is a sentence where the subject of his subject's work by object sentence. Active voice is more often used in everyday life than with passive voice. However, we often find the passive voice in newspapers, articles in magazines and scholarly writings. Passive voice is used because the object from active voice is more important than the information with respect to him.

example:

- Active : We fertilize the soil every 6 months

- Passive: The soil is fertilized by us every 6 months

From this example we can see that :

* The Object of the active voice (the soil) became the subject of the passive voice.
* Subject of active voice (we) became the object of the passive voice. Note also that there is a change of subject pronoun 'we' becomes the object pronoun 'us'.
* Verb1 (fertilize) in the active voice to be verb3 (fertilized) in passive voice.
* The increase be 'is' in front of verb3. Be used is dependent on the subject is passive voice and tenses are used. (Note the passive voice patterns below).
* Added word 'by' behind verb3. However, if the object of the passive voice is not considered important or not known, then the object is normally not expressed and so does the word 'by'.
* For specific sentences progressive (present, past, past perfect, future, past, future and past future perfect continuous, need to add 'being' in front of verb3). If it's not added 'being', the tensis will change, not progressive/continuous again. Note the examples in points h - o below.

The pattern of active and passive voice in each simple tense :

# If the active voice in simple present tense, then the 'be' passive voice is 'is', am or are.
example: