Question

Meaning of Active Voice and Passive Voice
What is mean by active and passive voice?

Answer 1

One of the two “voices” of verbs are active and passive. A verb is in the passive voice when the subject of the sentence is acted on by the verb. For example, in “The ball was thrown by the pitcher,” the ball (the subject) receives the action of the verb, and was thrown is in the passive voice. The same sentence cast in the active voice would be, “The pitcher threw the ball.”

Answer 2

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Active voice

• A verb is in the Active voice when its form shows that the person or thing denoted by the subject does something; or is the doer of the active.

Example

• Ram helps Sita.
• The chemist will have closed the shop by eight o'clock.
• We shall have painted the whole house by twelve o'clock.
• Cats catch mice.
• I write a letter.
• My father bought a car.

Passive voice

• A verb is in passive voice when its form shows that something is done to the person or thing denoted by the subject.

Example

• Sita is helped by Ram.
• The shop will have been closed by the chemist by eight o'clock.
• The whole house shall have been painted by us by twelve o'clock.
• Mice are caught by cats.
• A letter is written by me.
• A car was brought by her father.

Important points

• A verb is in the active voice when the person or thing denoted by the subject is "doer" of the action.
• A verb is in the passive voice when the person or thing denoted by subject is the "receiver" of the action.

Structure of active voice sentence

$\textbf{Subject+verb+object}$

Structure of passive voice sentence

$\textbf{Object+verb+by+subject}$