In sentences written in passive voice, the subject receives the action expressed in the verb; the subject is acted upon. The agent performing the action may appear in a “by the . . .” phrase or may be omitted.

i.e. “The boy /was bitten/ by the dog.”

In sentences written in active voice, the subject performs the action expressed in the verb; the subject acts.

i.e. “The dog bit the boy.”

Passive Voice Meaning

Definition Of Passive Voice

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What does passive voice mean?
I always get that problem from spellcheck on Word when I type something for school.

A passive voice is used to describe something that happened, while the active voice is used to describe the action. Here’s an example:

The race was run on Saturday. Passive voice, using a form of the verb “to be.”

We ran the race on Saturday. Active voice describing the action of running.

In other words if you “make it happen,” it’s the active voice, if it happens using the verb “to be,” its the passive.

No Red, its for example when you say “A mistake has been made” rather than “Bush made a mistake”. Its the opposite of “active voice”

Read more below:

In grammar, the voice of a verb describes the relationship between the action (or state) that the verb expresses and the participants identified by its arguments (subject, object, etc.). When the subject is the agent or actor of the verb, the verb is in the active voice. When the subject is the patient, target or undergoer of the action, it is said to be in the passive voice.

In the English language, we have PASSIVE and ACTIVE. We call a sentence active when its subject is the doer of the action. We call it passive when the subject is not the doer. Examples: 1. Andy broke the window. (Andy is the subject. He did break the window).

2. The window was broken by Andy. (The window is the subject. The window did not break itself. ANd broke it.)

We use the passive voice when the doer is not that important to say. The verb used is in the past participle (was/is/are/were + past participle verb).

Other examples:

Michelle took the pictures (Active)

The pictures WERE taken by Michelle. (Passive)

I WAS BORN in 1980. (Passive – I am not the doer of the action.)

She drives that truck. (Active)

That truck IS DRIVEN by her. (Passive)

I hope this helps.

Let’s say there is some situation which might evoke a gread deal of controversy. The “Passive Voice” might be the one that is not loud of intrusive. “Passive” in itself has the meaning or implies non-aggressive, soft, not too forceful. A passive voice would be the less loud or forceful voice or opinion in discussion or arguement. Spell check is for spelling but I am not sure it carries a dictionary style definition with it. It might correct your use of this word in a grammatical sense, however. This word is not one which you would commonly use in average conversation or writing.

John took the book. (active)

The book was taken by John (passive)

Mike threw out the garbage. (active)

The garbage was thrwon out by Mike. (passive)

He opens the door (active)

The door is being opened by him (passive)

I would imagine it means you aren’t using the right “tense” in your words. Such as…something that happened yesterday would have a difference tense than something that is happening right now.

“I GIVE him the books”…Give is present..”Gave” is past. But I’m not altogether sure and what do I know?