Active and Passive Voice
Developing a sentence with active and passive voice (a part of English grammar) depends on which part of the sentence we are going to give importance, whether it is the object to which an action has been rendered to or the person by whom the action has been carried out. The former is the passive voice and the latter is active voice. Since they are the basics in communication, Prestige institute insists on being proficient in these aspects along with other parts of grammar.
e.g: Active voice: Prestige institute handles English classes.
Passive Voice: English classes were handled by Prestige Institute
Considering the above example, each sentence has a subject, verb, and an object. Active voice is developed in this sequence: subject-verb and object, whereas passive voice puts object first, followed by verb and subject. In addition to that, considering the verb part of these two voices, past participle of the verb are used for passive voice so as the stress is on the object rather than being in the subject as active voice. Words such as ‘by, with, to’ are also used along with the sentence if needed while converting an active voice to passive voice. It is not mandatory that a subject is to be mentioned in passive voice as the stress in on the object alone if they are like the statements as given below. Therefore they are used when it is not important to know by who the actions are to be performed.
e.g: Racism is should be banned.
At our Prestige Institute, we teach the basics of Tenses and we don’t go in depth on voices. However, we do teach passive voices corresponding to few commonly used tenses.
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