Passive And Active Voice

In this course you will learn about sentence types, specifically active and passive voice. This course is ideal for intermediate learners.

Introduction 

We use the ‘active voice’ in most of the sentences we speak or write every day.  However, we sometimes use the ‘passive voice’. The difference is who is doing ‘the action’ in a sentence or to whom is the action being done.

Here is an example of the active voice:

‘The dog has bitten James!’ In this example, the dog is doing the action.

In the passive voice, the subject and the object are ‘flipped around’, so that the action is done to the person or object by someone or something else.

Here is an example of the passive voice: ‘James was bitten by the dog!

You will learn

1. Definition of the active and passive voice
2. Subject and verb recap
3. Sentence structure in the passive voice
4. Practice with past participles
5. Different uses of the passive voice
6. Practical exercises