Monday, February 28, 2011

Voice

Voice 
- indicates whether the subject of the sentence is the doer or receiver of the action expressed by the transitive verb.

Active Voice
= s-tv-do
- doer of the action.

example:
- The boys write letters.

Passive Voice
= s-iv 
- reciever of the action
- expressed by the prep. " by "
- helping verb. "is/are, be/being, has/have " 

example:
- The prize was awarded by the club.

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