We usually speak in the active voice.
The workers pick the tea and pack it into boxes.
But if it is not necessary to know who did the action (verb) then the passive voice can be used.
The tea is picked and packed into boxes.
I broke my leg. (active voice) My leg is broken. (passive voice) Active voice vs. Passive voice.
[Some one] washed the car. You need an active subject to use active voice. Who did the washing? That person should be the actor in the sentence.
Our has no bearing over whether a sentence is active or passive. It can be used in both. Active voice: A nice couple bought our house. Passive voice: Our house has been bought by a nice couple.
It is in the active voice.
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Everyone will remember the concert. A tip for active vs. passive voice: If you want to write a sentence in active voice, avoid the verb "to be" and take the participle (in this case "remembered") and use it as the main verb of the sentence, as in the example.
Active voice: I took the cake. or: I made a mistake.Passive voice: The cake was taken. or: A mistake was made.When the verb takes the action from the subject (the doer) and passes on to the object (the receiver), the verb is said to be in Active voice.I helped my friend.When the subject receives the action, the subject is the receiver of the action, the verb is said to be in Passive Voice.My friend was helped (by me).It better to use active voice if the Doer of the action is known or mentioned.
No, of course not (unless you're trying to use it with an intransitive verb). However, use it sparingly and when you do use it, think if the active voice would be better.
Active Voice Building was created in 1962.
No. Quite the opposite. Try to write your sentences in the active voice unless you have to use the passive.
The two voices of a verb are active voice and passive voice. In active voice, the subject of the sentence performs the action, while in passive voice, the subject receives the action.
To change interrogative present simple active voice sentences into passive voice, you typically move the object of the active sentence to the subject position in the passive sentence, and use a form of "be" along with the past participle of the verb. For example, change "Do you know the answer?" to "Is the answer known by you?"