Let1s talk about the passive voice2 The passive voice is more common

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Let's talk about the passive voice! The passive voice is more common in written English than spoken English, and we often hear it used in news reports and other types of stories. This higher-level grammar target can be a bit tricky, so let’s take a closer look. Here we go! Ellii First, we'll compare the active and passive voices in English. Next, we’ll look at the function and form of the passive voice. Then we’ll look at how to conjugate verbs in different tenses in the passive. Finally, we’ll see some examples of the passive voice before trying some practice exercises. Let’s start by comparing these two voices. In a regular sentence, also known as the active voice, there's a subject that performs the action; a verb, which is the action; and an object, which receives the action. In the passive voice, this is reversed. The receiver of the action, which is the object of an active sentence, now becomes the subject of the passive sentence. The verb changes into a passive verb. The former subject of the active sentence that performs the action moves into an object position. Let’s look at an example. The active sentence, “The children ate the cookies,” becomes “The cookies we...