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"I threw the ball" is a sentence in the active voice. "The ball was thrown by me" is in the passive voice. In Political language, you will often encounter the passive voice. Rather than saying "I made a mistake," you might hear the politician say "Mistakes were made."

Passive is formed with - be verb + past participle. If you want to say who does the action of a passive verb add by + noun phrase at the end of the sentence. This is called the agent.

For example:

present simple active = eat / asks. passive = is eaten / is asked

We eat bread at lunch time = Bread is eaten at lunch time (by us)

past simple active = ate /asked. passive = was eaten / was asked

We ate bread at lunch time. Bread was eaten at lunch time.

Passive is often used to describe a process where it is not important who or what does the action for example:

The tea leaves are picked in the morning and they are taken to the drying sheds. After it is processed the tea is stored in large warehouses.

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