Question

What is passive voice in a sentence? a.The subject performs the action stated by the verb. b.The sentence uses past tense verbs. c.The subject is acted upon by the verb. d.The sentence uses present tense verbs.

Answer 1

Answer:

The passive voice is used to show interest in the person or object that experiences an action rather than the person or object that performs the action. In other words, the most important thing or person becomes the subject of the sentence.(a) Because the subject does or "acts upon" the verb in such sentences, the sentences are said to be in the active voice.(b) This is totally different from other languages such as Spanish, French, Italian etc. where you change the verb ending for every subject.

For example: The past tense of the verb want is wanted.

Wanted is used as the past tense for all subjects/pronouns.

I wanted

You wanted

He wanted

She wanted

It wanted

We wanted

They wanted

(c)