In this lesson, Joe talks about the different uses of passive voice. Hi I'm Joe. And today we're looking at how to use passive voice in academic writing. Passive voice can be used in most contexts. It ...

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The passive voice is an important grammatical structure that appears in every form of written and spoken English. Knowledge of this construction is vital for reading and writing English in everyday ...

In English, we can express sentences in two different ways: active voice and passive voice. The active voice is used when the focus is on the subject (or agent) of the main verb. This is the person or ...

Direction (1 – 20): In the following twenty questions, a sentence has been given in Active/ Passive Voice. Out of the tour alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence ...

One "rule" that many self-appointed experts on writing return to again and again is: "Don't use the passive!" Or, as some puckishly put it, "The passive voice should be avoided." The passive voice is ...

Listen to Lexicon Valley Episode No. 11: When Being Done Replaced Doing Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab As a language evolves, words, phrases, and even whole tenses ...