Active vs. Passive Voice | Grammar Lessons

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Active vs. Passive Voice | Grammar Lessons

One of the fastest ways to improve your writing is to learn the difference between the active voice and the passive voice, and to adopt the active voice as often as you can. But before we can start to write in the active voice, we do need to know the difference. So the active voice is a sentence in which the actor, or the subject, comes before the action, or the verb. For this example, "Batman threw Joker from a seventy-story building." Let's find the verb. In this case, it's threw. That's the action. And so our actor, or our subject, is Batman. And you can see that this is an active sentence, because we lead with our subject, we go into our verb, and then we go into our object, which is the person receiving the action.

The result is a really active sentence. The active voice kind of sounds the way you think it would. The sentence moves in a very logical fashion. There is a lot of momentum in the sentence. If you wrote that sentence in the passive voice, it would look like this. Joker was thrown from the building my Batman. In this case, our subject comes last, our verb is up here, and our object is the Joker who's leading the sentence. So you can it's a kind of backward construction, which can slow the reader down, because we are starting with the receiver of an action, rather than the person who is initiating the action. Another way to look at passive construction, you might see a sentence that looks like this. Joker was thrown from the building.

And in this case, the person who did the throwing doesn't even appear in the sentence. So oftentimes, a passive voice can sort of hide the actor. This can be useful. Say you're writing and email to a boss, and you need to say that your boss forgot to pay you that week. You might say something like, "My check did not arrive," without saying who neglected to mail the check. So sometimes the passive voice can be your friend, but in general active voice leads to stronger writing and a much more compelling reading experience.

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[Forflies]

My English teahcer took 10 minutes to explain this and I still didnt understand. 2 minutes of this and I have it. Proof that schools need to hire better teachers.

[worldsedge__studios]

her: batman threw joker form a 70-story building


me: that's nice

[onebraincellleft]

In school this would take a whole class period to explain but you did it in three mins

[ThreeDaysOfDan]

I find passive voice a lot more eloquent, but my job requires me to write in an active voice now.

[matthewsmith]

I like how she says that Batman threw Joker off the 70 story building like it's nothing.

[Ash-xxzd]

This is amazing! You explained this so well. I have been consciously struggling eliminating passive tense writing habit for a long time. It will definitely be a process to break this habit but the way you broke it down will be a great reminder for me to accomplish this!!!

[hoorroushdy]

You’re amazing in explaining those things I understood everything . Thanks!

[alargebeaver]

Spot on! Thank you for covering some contexts when you need to use the passive voice.

[PswACC]

You did an exceptional job explaining the difference between the Active and Passive voice. Thank You!

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[harp]

Dude u people saved me, my paper is tomorrow and i understood this literally at the last minute

[MajorBonMarita]

Clear, concise, and helpful. Thanks.

[hannahkroll]

I cannot thank you enough for helping me! This video made Active & Passive voice so easy to understand.

[Nomadwithasmartphone]

Thank you for your clear and concise explanation!

[gabrielbrumberg]

"My check did not arrive" is active voice. :/

[felipercb]

Also the verb changes his form from *Simple Past* in active voice, to *Past Participle* in passive voice... Greetings from Chile, great video :D

[taylors]

I have been volunteering to teach English and had a questions on the difference in passive versus active voice it's difficult to explain the difference and when its appropriate to use. I think this video helps me explain better next time.

[edwardleonard]

Thank you.
You have saved my computer..

[Chad]

The presenter was so physically engaging that the viewer lost track of the lesson...or is it: The viewer lost track of the lesson because the presenter was so physically engaging.

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