Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Activeandpassivevoice 120807233839 Phpapp02 PDF
Activeandpassivevoice 120807233839 Phpapp02 PDF
ACTIVE >
Marilyn mailed the letter.
The dog jumped onto the boy.
The dog (subject) is doing the jumping (verb)
onto the boy (object).
PASSIVE <
The letter was mailed by Marilyn.
The boy was jumped on by the dog.
Boy (subject) was being jumped on (verb)
by the dog (object).