Peyton's Lessons Learned

Active/Passive Voice:

Active: Most English sentences containing action verbs are written in Active voice where the subject performs the action.

Ex. 1) The man must have eaten 10 hamburgers.

~ In this sentence the man(sub.) is eating(verb) the hamburgers.

Ex. 2) The dogs chewed on the bones.

~ In this sentence the dogs(sub.) are chewing(verb) the bones.

*The subject will always come first!*

Passive: In Passive sentences the object receiving the action acts as the subject of the one doing the action is found towards the end of the sentence.

Ex. 3) Ten hamburgers must have been eaten by the man.

~ The hamburgers(sub.) are being eaten(verb).

Ex. 4) The bones were chewed by the dogs.

~ The bones(sub.) are being chewed(verb).

* Note: In these examples the subject-verb relationship changed!*