{"id":2697,"date":"2017-12-05T06:27:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T06:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2017-12-05T06:30:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T06:30:11","slug":"when-to-use-the-passive-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/when-to-use-the-passive-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"When To Use The Passive Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The active voice is used when the subject is to be made prominent. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/active-and-passive-voice\/\">passive voice<\/a> is used when the object is to be made prominent.<\/p>\n<p>The passive voice is preferred to the active voice in the following cases:<\/p>\n<p>1. When the doer of the action is not known or when it doesn\u2019t matter who performed the action.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The patient<strong> was carried<\/strong> home. (Passive)\u00a0It doesn\u2019t matter who carried the patient home: must have been his friends or relatives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2. When the subject in the active voice is clear from the context.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She <strong>was dismissed<\/strong>. (Who dismissed her? Must be her mistress)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Passive voice exercise<\/h2>\n<p>Change the following sentences into the passive.<\/p>\n<p>1. This pot contains water.<br \/>\n2. They built this house in 1990.<br \/>\n3. She laughed at the beggar.<br \/>\n4. We will not help them.<br \/>\n5. The masons are building the house.<br \/>\n6. She has done her work.<br \/>\n7. Have you kept the secret?<br \/>\n8. They sent me a message.<br \/>\n9. He listened to me.<br \/>\n10. Did he stare at you?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Water <strong>is contained<\/strong> in this pot.<br \/>\n2. This house <strong>was built<\/strong> in 1990 by them.<br \/>\n3. The beggar <strong>was laughed<\/strong> at by her.<br \/>\n4. They <strong>will not be helped<\/strong> by us.<br \/>\n5. The house <strong>is being built<\/strong> by the masons.<br \/>\n6. Her work <strong>has been done<\/strong> by her.<br \/>\n7. <strong>Has the secret been kept<\/strong> by you?<br \/>\n8. I<strong> was sent<\/strong> a message by them. OR A message <strong>was sent<\/strong> to me by them.<br \/>\n9. I <strong>was listened to<\/strong> by them.<br \/>\n10. <strong>Were you stared at<\/strong> by him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The active voice is used when the subject is to be made prominent. The passive voice is used when the object is to be made prominent. The passive voice is preferred to the active&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-2697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons","tag-passive-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}