{"id":71791,"date":"2019-08-26T08:12:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T08:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71791"},"modified":"2019-08-26T08:12:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T08:12:55","slug":"passive-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/passive-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Passive Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sentence structure in which the logical object of a verb becomes its grammatical subject, while its logical subject is either reduced to a prepositional phrase introduced by <strong>by<\/strong> or removed from the sentence altogether. The subject of a<strong> passive verb<\/strong> is usually the person or thing that is affected by the action of the verb.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the sentence<strong> They sent John to prison for five years<\/strong>, which is in the active voice. Its corresponding passive form is <strong>John was sent to prison for five years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another example is given below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Madame Curie discovered radium in 1898. (active voice)<\/li>\n<li>Radium<strong> was discovered<\/strong> (by Madame Curie) in 1898. (passive voice)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In English, the passive voice is constructed by combining the verb be with the past participle of the lexical verb.<\/p>\n<p>As a rule any transitive verb can appear in the passive voice, but there are a few exceptions like <strong>have, fit, weigh and resemble.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ann has a nice temper. (BUT NOT A nice temper is had by Ann.)<\/li>\n<li>This suit fits you. (BUT NOT You are fitted by this suit.)<\/li>\n<li>She resembles an angel. (BUT NOT An angel is resembled by her.)<\/li>\n<li>Ann weighs 10 stone. (BUT NOT 10 stone is weighed by Ann.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An intransitive verb cannot normally appear in the passive at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sentence structure in which the logical object of a verb becomes its grammatical subject, while its logical subject is either reduced to a prepositional phrase introduced by by or removed from the sentence&#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":[251],"tags":[771,889,44,888,887],"class_list":["post-71791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-active-voice","tag-passive","tag-passive-voice","tag-transitive-verb","tag-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71791","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=71791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71792,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71791\/revisions\/71792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}