What is English passive?

Answer 1

The passive voice is used, most commonly, in objective writing. In contrast, a heavily biased newspaper will not use the passive voice...

(Newspaper)ACTIVE VOICE: ' He hit the girl 5 times!'

(Objective writing)PASSIVE VOICE:' The girl was hit 5 times by the boy'

The object and subject of the sentence have exchanged places. In the first sentence the fact that the boy hit the girl stands out, whereas in the second we notice that she was hit, it is not so important by whom. The first sentence encourages us not to like the boy, whereas the second encourages us to think passively about the situation.

1.Peter took his dog for a walk

2.The dog was taken for a walk by Peter

1. Subject (Peter) before object (dog) and action ( walk). The subject in this sentence is ACTIVE.

2. Subject ( dog) is PASSIVE in this sentence and being acted on by the object ( Peter).