passive sentence

No distinction is made, for example, between active versus passive sentences.

In the above example, in the passive sentences we have no idea who made the observation.

It urges active rather than passive sentences such as please tell us instead of you are requested.

As both the active and the passive sentence mean the same thing, it is reasonable to ask why we need both.

For example, a passive sentence is harder to understand than an active sentence.

Definite objects can be topicalized in both active and passive sentences.

So the passive sentence has two different interpretations.

The second advantage of passive sentences is that they have a different word order from active sentences.

Another method of making a passive sentence active is to change the subject of the verb.

The latter trend results in passive sentences that sound important but are limp and difficult to read:

All these were short sentences studded with the action of verbs and not passive sentence fragments.

Hint: It is common in English to make the indirect object the subject of a passive sentence.

Subjects were told whether to produce an active or a passive sentence to describe the picture, and production latency was measured.

In this example, the active sentence only has subject wide scope, but the passive sentence is ambiguous.

In a literary essay, however, you should be cautious about leaving out the actor in a passive sentence.

Pairs of active and passive sentences were included as controls and performance with these showed the opposite pattern.

In a passive sentence, the agent is a chômeur, having been "demoted" from the central or nuclear function of subject.

Alternatively, one could phrase a passive sentence as an active one with the agent subject being unknown.

In specifying the agent in a passive sentence, the preposition "de" is used.

Only direct objects and undergoers of passive sentences are marked by cliticized personal markers.

Grammar checkers may attempt to identify passive sentences and suggest an active-voice alternative.

The object of the active sentence, for instance, becomes the subject of the passive sentence.

Check for passive sentence construction too.

For example, in the passive sentence "The tree was pulled down", the subject (the tree) denotes the patient rather than the agent of the action.

In the following passive sentence the writer does not tell us who did the associating (newspapers? literary critics? the general public? everyone?):