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Active is actually smoking. Passive is standing near active, and breathing in their smoke, indirectly.
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The passive voice is formed by using a form of "to be" (such as is, are, was, were) followed by the past participle of the main verb. This construction shifts the focus from the subject performing the action to the action itself.
A passive sentence says that something happened but doesn't say who caused it to happen. For example: food was eaten. An active sentence says who did it. For example: Tom ate the food.
You can change the active voice to the passive voice by changing an object to a subject, as follows: let us say that your original sentence is Fred has eaten dinner. That is the active voice. Dinner is the object. In the passive voice dinner becomes the subject, so the sentence becomes, dinner has been eaten. Fred, the original subject, has disappeared. We no longer know who ate the dinner, we merely know that it has been eaten by someone. The passive voice is therefore distinguished by being less informative. It is used by people who are trying to evade responsibility for something, or to avoid being specific. Something happened but we can't say who did it.ANDThe form of passive is be + past participleeg - been eaten, being eaten, was cooked, is cooked,The passive allows us to leave the 'doer' of the verb out of the sentence. This is useful if the 'doer' is not important. egThe Mona Lisa was painted in the 16th century.If you want to say who does the action of a passive verb add by + pronoun / noun phrase at the end of the sentence. This is called the agent.The dinner was eaten by Fred.This is useful if you want to emphasis the agent egThe painting is very valuable. It was painted by Van Gogh.
the cat was injured in a fight passive or active
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The verb "given" in the sentence "Were you given a second helping" is in the passive voice.
It is considered unacceptable to use passive voice when the doer of the action is unknown or purposely being obscured, or when it leads to ambiguity or wordiness in communication. In technical or scientific writing, passive voice may be preferred to emphasize objectivity and focus on results rather than the doer.
"The policeman chased after Fred" is active voice.