write the rukes of changing active abd passive voice.
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Other than a reminder that you should avoid passive voice most of the time, the main rule is move the object to the subject, where it is being acted upon, and the subject to the object. Example: Jim threw the ball. Subject-verb-object, active voice. Turn it around and you have the passive. The ball was thrown by Jim. Next example: Mickey gave Minnie a bouquet of daisies. Subject-verb-indirect object-object-preposition-object of the preposition, active voice. Turn it around and you have the passive. The bouquet of daisies was given to Minnie by Mickey.
The good uses of passive voice are diplomatic or in the case of the subject being a victim. Then you have sentences like, “Pearl Harbor was bombed.” (The US would just as soon not remind its good friend, Japan, that we were once enemies by using the active voice, “Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.”) That’s a good use of the passive voice. It works for victims as well—”The Uber driver was mugged.”—especially when you don’t know who did it. Active would be, “An unknown assailant mugged the Uber driver.” The third use, which I hesitate to call good, would be to evade blame. Example, “Mother, your figurine is broken.” At best, it’s only momentarily safer than the active voice, “Mother, I broke your figurine.”
