"The car was fixed" is in the passive voice. In this construction, the subject (the car) receives the action (being fixed) rather than performing it. The focus is on the action done to the subject rather than who performed the action.
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Active transport requires energy while passive transport does not.
Some are passive (e.g. melanin) and some are active (e.g. actin, myosin).
The sentence "The car was fixed" is in passive voice. In passive voice constructions, the subject (the car) receives the action rather than performing it. Here, the doer of the action (who fixed the car) is not specified, which is typical of passive voice.
Passive because it doesn't tell us who lost the pencil. Jack had lost the pencil -- is an active sentence The pencil had been lost by Jack -- is a passive sentence. You don't have to have the agent (by Jack)
john has sold car
The passive equivalent is "The car will be repaired by the mechanic."
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== == "English grammer active and passive voice change from active to passive .
Passive is to change as active is to affect.
is a thermocouple an active or passive transducer?-why?
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The passive voice must have the verb 'to be' in the correct tense plus the past participle of the main verb. Here are some examples: I do (active)/it is done (passive) I did (active)/it was done (passive) I am doing (active)/it is being done (passive) I was doing (active)/it was being done (passive) and so on So to change protect into the passive would be I protect (active)/ It is protected (passive)
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